Verizon’s 5G home broadband service, Verizon 5G Home, launches in select areas on Oct. 1 at a cost of $50 for Verizon Wireless customers and $70 for customers who don’t use Verizon Wireless. The company is promising home broadband speeds from 300 megabits per second up to 1 gigabit per second. Where is it available? …
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Verizon says its “5G Ultra Wideband” service, which uses super high-frequency wireless spectrum, will give it an edge over competitors. In a blog post Tuesday, Kyle Malady, the company’s CTO, made the case for why the company’s 5G network is different from all the rest. “There’s 5G, then there’s Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband,” Malady writes. Specifically, he outlined three major …
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Racing to make high-speed 5G networks a reality, AT&T will light up New Orleans, Houston and San Antonio, Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; and Louisville, Kentucky with the next-generation mobile technology this year. The cities will join others already announced — Atlanta; Dallas and Waco, Texas; Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; Indianapolis and Oklahoma City — the company said Monday at its …
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5G, the next generation of super-fast mobile data, is expected to take off next year. Samsung’s next flagship phone may be able to take advantage of it. Samsung will reportedly release both 4G and 5G variants of the Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus next year, according to South Korean publication The Bell. Samsung may release three different models of the Galaxy …
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The Federal Communications Commission wants to make it easier for wireless carriers to deploy 5G across the country. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr on Tuesday announced a new plan, which the FCC will vote on later this month, that gives states guidance for passing laws to help streamline the approval process for deploying new gear that delivers 5G service. The announcement …
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Xiaomi Director of Product Management Donovan Sung on Monday posted a photo on Twitter of a new phone, widely believed to be the Mi Mix 3, asking, “Does anyone see anything interesting?” The answer is yes, as it shows 5G active in the status bar as well as a display with its cell connection info behind it. The phone is …
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It’s hard to know what the future will bring, but a majority of US consumers think that five decades from now, we’ll all be overly dependent on tech and spend less time interacting with each other. At the same time, consumers believe tech makes our lives easier and are most enthusiastic about where things are headed with computers, smartphones …
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Qualcomm has a plan to bring super speedy 5G connectivity to consumers’ smartphones by next year. The chipmaker said Wednesday that its upcoming 5G platform will feature a system-on-a-chip built on the 7-nanometer mode process. When paired with the company’s Snapdragon X50, it’ll enable what Qualcomm calls the first 5G-capable mobile platform for mobile devices. Qualcomm said it’s already begun …
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The next-generation of wireless technology, known as 5G, is poised to change our lives. Once it actually gets here. But how will 5G look and work when it does? T-Mobile is aiming for broad coverage and has committed to building a nationwide 5G network by 2020. “Our view is 5G should be everywhere,” President and Chief Operating Officer Mike Sievert …
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Sprint is planting its own flag in the 5G race. The nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier, poised to merge with T-Mobile next year, said Tuesday that it has tapped LG to build a 5G smartphone and believes it will be the first to market with one next year. “We think we’re far enough along in the development that we would be …
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