Verizon Will Launch 5G Home Internet Access In 2018 (engadget.com)

wyattstorch516 writes: Real competition may finally be on the way for the residential broadband market. Verizon will be the first company to introduce 5G wireless broadband in a select number of cities. This will give residential customers an alternative to cable/fiber offerings. 5G wireless can offer speeds in the range of hundreds of megabits per second. Full technical specifications as well as pricing plans have yet to be determined. The launch is scheduled for the second half of 2018.

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Latency and Monthly Bandwidth

[corychristison]

This will depend on monthly bandwidth allotments, and, to a lesser extent, latency.

If you can't pull down 500GB a month at a reasonable cost, there will be no competition. End of story.

Re:Latency and Monthly Bandwidth

[Darinbob]

It will be like cable. Lots of bandwidth at the start, user is very happy. Later everyone uses it, more and more of the fixed bandwidth gets used by the neighbors, original user is pissed that performance has gone down.

Re:Latency and Monthly Bandwidth

[mysidia]

first handful of 5G home subscribers will have a similar experience until 5G smartphones become popular.

So in exchange for being fixed endpoints and not allowed to move; give the 5G home users priority on the network and apply all the restrictions and throttling to the actual smartphones. Because of the additional capacity 5G provides it should be fine providing they build out their networks adequately.

It's not competition..

[Z80a]

If it's verizon offering it.
Wake me up when another company like google is allowed to even try.

Wat

[XSportSeeker]

"Verizon Will Launch" "Real competition"
Does not compute