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Verizon Plans To Roll Out Its 5G Mobile Network In 30 Cities This Year (engadget.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the ready-or-not-here-it-comes dept.

Verizon has announced plans to turn on its 5G mobile network in 30 U.S. cities this year. "It revealed the plan during an investor meeting Thursday, though didn't disclose the list of cities," reports Engadget. From the report: Verizon already offers home broadband service via 5G in Los Angeles, Houston, Indianapolis and Sacramento. This month, it hinted at upcoming rollouts in New York City and Atlanta, as well as Medford, Massachusetts, suggesting Verizon will bring 5G to nearby Boston too. The provider plans to flip the switch on its mobile 5G network in the first half of this year, and it will expand its home 5G service to more markets later in 2019. One of the first phones to support Verizon's nascent 5G network will be the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G, which was unveiled yesterday at Samsung's Unpacked event. The device has a larger screen and battery than the S10 Plus, and will temporarily be a Verizon exclusive before expanding to other carriers in the weeks after launch. It's slated to go on sale sometime "in the first half of 2019."

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  1. Who cares? by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 2

    5G isn't for the customer -- the customer already has fast data in the form of 4G. It's for device makers who want to put a camera and mic in everything, phoning (hah!) home to the mothership, governments that want to roll out surveillance networks on the cheap. You're the product, not the customer.

    Me? I've turned off my data plan and now pay under $20/mo, if and when I choose to bring my cell with me. All hail Ned Ludd!

    1. Re:Who cares? by drinkypoo · · Score: 2

      Me? I've turned off my data plan and now pay under $20/mo, if and when I choose to bring my cell with me. All hail Ned Ludd!

      My new phone plan is going to be $20/mo, too! And no 5G, so nobody will ever spy on me! All hail Google Fi! Er, wait...

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    2. Re:Who cares? by AHuxley · · Score: 2

      Communist govs get to track mil/contractors near every mil building in real time.
      Communist spies making new friends in the bar, pub, "gym", library, cafe now have the past movement history of all relevant mil/contractors/workers.
      Daily movements and turn on the 5G?
      Its full digital for the Communist spies now.

      Communist govs are very happy with rapid rollout of the new networks all over the world.

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    3. Re: Who cares? by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 2

      Why are you stinking your private photos with the clown? Enjoy your time with your family - you don't have to put every second of it on the Intarwebz.

  2. VZ is dumping copper... by RealGene · · Score: 2

    After Superstorm Sandy, Verizon refused to repair a lot of their damaged copper POTS lines, and required customers affected to use (4G) wireless connected via an adapter to their landline phones.

    They're rolling out 5G to kill off copper completely, and to recover from the financial disaster of FiOS as a broadband strategy.

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  3. Re:When 5G gives everyone cancer do they pay the b by bonedonut · · Score: 2

    how will they differentiate between 3G, 4G, and 5G cancer?

  4. That's nothing by rsilvergun · · Score: 3, Funny

    Donald Trump's gonna roll out 6G!

    I tell you, the best wireless. You're gonna get tired of winning this wireless.

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