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

Posted by BeauHD on from the answered-prayers dept.

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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  1. Latency and Monthly Bandwidth by corychristison · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Latency and Monthly Bandwidth by Darinbob · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

  2. It's not competition.. by Z80a · · Score: 5, Insightful

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