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Los Angeles Will be Verizon’s 2nd 5G Market for 2018

Kellen May 15, 2018 19

Verizon is launching 5G in 2018, just not the wireless kind that your phone will get to play with. Instead, Verizon will launch 5G as a home internet service that they'll push into select markets. The first is Sacramento, which Verizon announced months ago....

Sprint Adds Three New Cities to List of First 5G Markets

Kellen May 15, 2018 6

Yes, Sprint still wants to merge with T-Mobile, but that hasn't stopped them from moving forward with plans to launch 5G on their own. After all, nothing is guaranteed in the merger-acquisition business. And so with that in mind, today, Sprint announced...

Samsung’s 5G Home Router Hits the FCC, Gets Verizon a Step Closer to Launch

Kellen April 30, 2018 11

Back at MWC, Samsung announced that its 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) solution had been granted authorization by the FCC, a first for 5G millimeter wave (mmW) products. Specifically, they were talking about their 5G Access Unit (above-center), which hit the...

T-Mobile Says That 5G Won’t be Much Faster Than 4G…at First

Kellen April 26, 2018 31

With all of the hype surrounding 5G, you wouldn't be out of line to expect a dramatically different experience from your current 4G LTE connection when those first 5G networks go live over the next couple of years. Unless you are talking to T-Mobile, who said...

AT&T 5G Evolution Expands to More Than 100 New Markets

Kellen April 20, 2018 11

AT&T's 5G Evolution, which isn't 5G by any means and is just upgraded 4G LTE, has expanded to a whole bunch of new markets. AT&T says to expect it in more than 100 as of today, which should mean an upgraded network experience for a whole bunch of their...

Verizon CEO Thinks 5G Will Give Your Phone Month-Long Battery Life.

Kellen March 21, 2018 53

Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam, you are a wild man, sir. Speaking at IBM's Think 2018 conference this week, McAdam spent some time on the subject of 5G and said one thing in particular that took us through an array of emotions within a 30 second span. It went...

And Now T-Mobile Says It’ll Push 5G Into 30 Cities This Year (Updated)

Kellen February 27, 2018 31

Before we could even finish getting excited about Sprint's first 5G cities, T-Mobile has swooped in and announced that they'll prepare 5G in 30 cities throughout the year. The plan is to build everything out in preparation for the launch of 5G in 2019. T-...

We Now Know Sprint’s First 5G Cities

Kellen February 27, 2018 12

As Sprint prepares to launch 5G in 2019, they announced which US cities would be the first to get a taste. Not only that, but these cities will see major improvements to 4G LTE connections in the mean time, thanks to Massive MIMO technology that Sprint is...