News Intel and MediaTek Team up for 5G Laptops

A Forbes article on this made the statement below. Anyone confirm? I thought Qualcomm had multi-mode.

"Though to MediaTek’s technical credit, all of its 5G modems are multi-mode, meaning that a single modem supports everything from 2G to 5G, whereas Qualcomm’s current 5G modems are only for 5G and require another modem chip for 4G and below."