No AT&T subscribers, your Apple iPhone is not connecting to a true 5G network

Even though Apple isn't expected to have a 5G enabled handset until 2020, some AT&T customers with an iPhone are going to be convinced that they are connected to a 5G network following the iOS 12.2 update. According to MacRumors, that's because following the installation of the recently released iOS 12.2 beta, some iPhone users on AT&T noticed the 5G E icon on their device's status bar. But in this case, seeing is deceiving.

As we pointed out in December, the 5G E icon indicates that the phone is connected to AT&T's 5G Evolution network. And that would ...

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