Last month Verizon announced that it would be bringing 5G service to “select areas” of Chicago and Minneapolis starting on April 11th. But yesterday morning, Verizon surprised the world by posting a video of a 762Mbps speed test, announcing it had launched early, and bragging: “Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network is the first commercial 5G network […]
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Verizon Mobile 5G Service Launching April 11th – In Just Two Cities
UPDATE (April 4, 2019): Verizon launched a week early to attempt to lay claim to launching the world’s first 5G smartphone service. We have published a story on the launch here: Verizon 5G Service Launches Early – 700Mbps Speed Tests Reported Verizon at last announced the first details of its upcoming mobile 5G plans this morning – […]
5G Getting Practical: Qualcomm Announces Second Generation X55 5G Modem Chipset
Fifth generation cellular technology is coming, and every carrier is cranking the hype machine up to eleven talking about how this amazing new technology has the potential to usher in dramatic improvements in connectivity – with insanely fast speeds and lower latencies that will usher in a whole range of new applications. Verizon rushed to […]
2018 Mobile Internet Year in Review & Looking Forward Into 2019
2018 has been yet another wild ride in the world of mobile internet! The undeniable biggest story of the year was the surprise release of an actual (mostly) unlimited mobile hotspot data plan from Verizon, once again making Verizon an obvious Top Pick for anyone with serious mobile data needs. But there were plenty of […]
AT&T to “Upgrade” Millions of 4G/LTE Phones to Pretend They Are 5G
UPDATE (2/5/2019): Apple Embracing 5GE Label in iOS 12.2 As we reported in December (original story below), several Android phones have been updated to display “5GE” over the past several weeks, and it appears as if Apple customers will soon be getting an “upgrade” to 5G on AT&T too. Over the past few days some […]
AT&T Launches Extremely Underwhelming Mobile 5G Plan in 12 Cities
The entire mobile industry has been talking incessantly for the past year about how the upcoming fifth generation of cellular technologies will revolutionize connectivity – with some even going so far as saying that 5G will be the “fundamental platform for the fourth industrial revolution”. AT&T in particular has been pushing hard to be the […]
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