LTE
Here’s a weird one. When your normally-very-fast cell service is spotty, you might notice a little logo letting you know your phone switched from 5G to LTE. Guess what that stands for: Long Term Evolution. Weird right?
LTE is one of many standards for wireless telecommunication (e.g. cell phone service). As we expand the use of cellphones and other wireless devices, telecom companies are forced to expand the capacity of their systems, both in terms of speed and the number of devices a network can handle. LTE is sort of a half-way point between 3G and 4G (which we’ll get to, just be patient). In other words, when they developed it LTE was one step in the “long term evolution” of telephony standards.
