VZ has widely hyped how Magical! their "Ultra Wideband" mmWave band
offering is.

Trouble is, given the useful range from a mmWave site to you is ~1000
ft, not a lot of folks ever get that mmWave signal, and thus see that
hyped logo on their phone.

BUT VZ has now solved that issue. Not by installing the zillions of
mmWave nodes needed to cover the country, but rather by fiat: If your VZ
phone grabs onto a midband signal, i.e. 3.7GHz-3.98GHz, it will ssay it
is "Ultra Wideband" on the display.

<https://www.phonearena.com/news/verizon-receives-early-clearance-to-use-5g-c-band-spectrum_id139181>

(It's a floor wax and a dessert topping!)

In 2019, it was AT&T that pulled a similar stunt. They changed their
display from "LTE" to "5G E." In response, T-Mobile offered to send out
sticky labels to its customers to "upgrade" their phones.

<https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/01/08/att-is-being-criticized-upgrading-its-phones-fake-g-now-t-mobile-is-piling/>

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

(Oh, and BTW, VZ's 3.7GHz-3.98GHz midband is the spectrum with the
controversy over interfering with aircraft radar altimeters.)

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