Verizon Plans To Roll Out Its 5G Mobile Network In 30 Cities This Year

Verizon has announced plans to turn on its 5G mobile network in 30 U.S. cities this year. "It revealed the plan during an investor meeting Thursday, though didn't disclose the list of cities," reports Engadget. From the report: Verizon already offers home broadband service via 5G in Los Angeles, Houston, Indianapolis and Sacramento. This month, it hinted at upcoming rollouts in New York City and Atlanta, as well as Medford, Massachusetts, suggesting Verizon will bring 5G to nearby Boston too. The provider plans to flip the switch on its mobile 5G network in the first half of this year, and it will expand its home 5G service to more markets later in 2019. One of the first phones to support Verizon's nascent 5G network will be the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G, which was unveiled yesterday at Samsung's Unpacked event. The device has a larger screen and battery than the S10 Plus, and will temporarily be a Verizon exclusive before expanding to other carriers in the weeks after launch. It's slated to go on sale sometime "in the first half of 2019."

Who cares?

[b0s0z0ku]

5G isn't for the customer -- the customer already has fast data in the form of 4G. It's for device makers who want to put a camera and mic in everything, phoning (hah!) home to the mothership, governments that want to roll out surveillance networks on the cheap. You're the product, not the customer.

Me? I've turned off my data plan and now pay under $20/mo, if and when I choose to bring my cell with me. All hail Ned Ludd!

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[drinkypoo]

Me? I've turned off my data plan and now pay under $20/mo, if and when I choose to bring my cell with me. All hail Ned Ludd!

My new phone plan is going to be $20/mo, too! And no 5G, so nobody will ever spy on me! All hail Google Fi! Er, wait...

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[AHuxley]

Communist govs get to track mil/contractors near every mil building in real time.
Communist spies making new friends in the bar, pub, "gym", library, cafe now have the past movement history of all relevant mil/contractors/workers.
Daily movements and turn on the 5G?
Its full digital for the Communist spies now.

Communist govs are very happy with rapid rollout of the new networks all over the world.

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[_merlin]

Fuck me, you're the reincarnation of McCarthy. See kids, this is how an ideology props itself up: by spreading fear about the other ideology. Without constant fear of the other, ideologies fail. Don't play into their game.

Re: Who cares?

[ljw1004]

4g isn't fast enough data for me. After a fun day with my family, with a load of photos and videos, it takes hours to sync then to the cloud (iCloud, Google photos, or I use One Drive). And I can't really start sharing, processing, editing then until they're uploaded.

I'd love much faster data.

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[b0s0z0ku]

Why are you stinking your private photos with the clown? Enjoy your time with your family - you don't have to put every second of it on the Intarwebz.

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[AHuxley]

The series of huge new pipes and tubes is on the way.
Then up to a new 5G location and its full speed 5G for all.

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[bonedonut]

how will they differentiate between 3G, 4G, and 5G cancer?

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[AHuxley]

Some type of 5G dish on the building? 5G can do long distances right?
Use that math to get the 5G connecting into the next state with the correct math?
Once that 5G data is at the tower its new extra big pipes and tubes all the way.

Cities, cities, all the time cities!

[Ungrounded Lightning]

Verizon has announced plans to turn on its 5G mobile network in 30 U.S. cities this year.

Cities, cities, all the time cities!

Wireless isn't (just) about cities, where you have a concentration of devices to connect, short distances between them, and infrastructure for building infrastructure.

Wireless is about being able to serve customers WHEREVER they are.

Yes, that includes devices moving around in cities, in a sea of tiny cells to serve the enormous data throughput needs through the limited radio bandwidt

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[Ungrounded Lightning]

missed a slash. Sigh.

Only the first line was a quote.

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[kurkosdr]

Calm your horses. When they mean "roll out to the cities" they mean set up some glorified WiGig hotspots in some central spots, which is what mmWave 5G is. mmWave 5G makes no sense outside dense urban centers. The other 5G, the one which will be an improvement to 4G and operates at lower frequency bands, will take some time to be fully rolled out due to network upgrade costs.

VZ is dumping copper...

[RealGene]

After Superstorm Sandy, Verizon refused to repair a lot of their damaged copper POTS lines, and required customers affected to use (4G) wireless connected via an adapter to their landline phones.

They're rolling out 5G to kill off copper completely, and to recover from the financial disaster of FiOS as a broadband strategy.

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[AHuxley]

5G has great distance right? They did think of that for the more rural areas?

Re: VZ is dumping copper...

[Anonymous Coward]

5g has shorter distances.

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[AHuxley]

Any idea of the best distances AC under good conditions? With correct hardware and a well designed dish/antenna. Thanks.

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[AHuxley]

Someone is going to have to roll out big new tubes and pipes all over the USA so 5G stays fast like the marketing says it will.

That's nothing

[rsilvergun]

Donald Trump's gonna roll out 6G! [arstechnica.com]

I tell you, the best wireless. You're gonna get tired of winning this wireless.

Due to the egregious 5G marketing hype....

[QuietLagoon]

... I pretty much ignore all the 5G announcements of late. The cell industry definitely blew it, big time, with all the unsubstantiated 5G hype. I just do not believe what they say anymore. The cell ISPs need a new marketing team.