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Verizon claims it will offer 5G this year

by on23 February 2017


Jumping the gun

Verizon Communications claims it will be offering its high-speed wireless 5G network to certain customers in 11 U.S. cities in the first half of 2017.

Verizon will begin pilot testing 5G "pre-commercial services" in cities, including Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Miami, Seattle and Washington, D.C.

The company had said last July that it laid out plans to conduct trials for its 5G network this year.

According to the press release the new 5G networks are expected to provide speeds at least 10 times and up to maybe 100 times faster than today's 4G networks, with the potential to connect at least 100 billion devices with download speeds that can reach 10 gigabits per second.

Of course, there is a slight problem with this. There is not a 5G standard yet, most the equipment has not even been built and most 5G work is still being conducted in lab conditions. Yet Verizon is not the only one to claim it will have 5G on the streets this year.  AT&T Inc said in January that it planned to test its high-speed wireless 5G network for customers of its online streaming television service, DirecTv Now, in Austin, Texas.

Last modified on 23 February 2017
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