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

Posted by samzenpus on from the build-it-better dept.

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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  1. Re: at $15 a gig in overages they will pay off the by msauve · · Score: 4, Informative

    "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.

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