Apple has never claimed that its iPhone 4S was 4g capable for their own benefit. The cell carriers were and are in competition to be able to say that they have the fastest data speeds. T-Mobile decided to use HSPA+, a modified version of 3g, to increase its speeds. AT&T followed suit. Verizon and Sprint worked on installing new LTE equipment. AT&T followed suit. None of these carriers has ‘true’ 4g speeds. The truth, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile are trying to peddle their latest 4g-Long Term Evolution (LTE) Advanced as soon as 2013. They agreed the plans for future work on Long Term Evolution (LTE) Advanced. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) originally tried to stop the carriers (here and abroad) from saying that their network is 4g, but legally there was nothing the ITU could do to stop it, so in Dec. 2010, the ITU gave up and said that the forerunners of LTE Advanced (Verizon’s, Sprints, and AT&T’s …full read