Verizon Vows To Build the First 5G Network In the US (networkworld.com)

alphadogg writes: Verizon says it will have the first 5G network in the U.S., a promise it probably can't fulfill until 2020 but will start working at this year. Verizon Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo made the pledge Thursday on the company's fourth-quarter financial results call. He also repeated the company's plans for so-called 5G trials this year.

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Re:at $15 a gig in overages they will pay off the

[msauve]

Sorry, your answer doesn't count unless you show the math.

Verizon is consistently rated as having the best network in the US. That costs money to build out, maintain, and upgrade.

Currently, Sprint is losing money, T-Mo's profit margin is 1.68%, ATT's is 3.68%. Verizon's is 7.86%. Companies which don't have infrastructure of that scale to build and maintain: Apple's margin is 22.85%, MSFT 13.52%, GOOG 22.86%.

Your implication that VZW is vastly overcharging simply doesn't fit the facts, but does make a good populist sound bite.

Re: at $15 a gig in overages they will pay off the

[msauve]

"Hey, dumbass, guess what. Voice communication uses more data than texts or video streaming,"

Hey, AC, guess what? You're extremely wrong. A full telco fidelity G.711 voice stream uses ~64 kbps (unidirectional). The recommended speech codec for VoLTE is G.722.2, which provides HD audio in <24 kbps. What video streaming are you doing in a 64 k channel? You can't even do decent stereo audio with that.