Category: 5G
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5G Home Internet Is Now Live in New York City & is Coming to 15 Other Markets At Just $50 a Month
The dream of new comapnies offering home internet has been just a dream for years. Now slowly a growing number of new companies are moving into home internet including Starry. Starry is a startup from some of the team behind Aereo, which has slowly been rolling out 5G fixed wireless home Internet. Currently Starry offers…
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The FCC Plans Spend $20.4 Billion To Expand Broadband Internet to 4 Million Rural Americans
Today the FCC announced plans to spend $20.4 billion on efforts to bring broadband to 4 million rural American homes. To do this the FCC is creating a new Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. This new Rural Digital Opportunity Fund will be used to help roll out infrastructure to rural Americans in peroration for 5G technologies according…
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Verizon is Now Rolling Out 5G Wireless For Smartphones
Earlier today Verizon launched 5G mobile internet for smartphones in Chicago and Minneapolis. This is not their home internet service but 5G for mobile. This new services will offer average download speeds of 450 Mbps with peak speeds of nearly 1 Gbps to mobile phones that support 5G. “Verizon customers will be the first in…
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DIRECTV NOW is Once Again Offering a Free Apple TV 4K
Are you looking for a free Apple TV? Right now DIRECTV NOW is offering a free Apple TV 4K 32GB if you prepay for 4 months of DIRECTV NOW. This deal will cost you $200 plus taxes but give you 4 months of DIRECTV NOW and a Apple TV 4K that typically costs $179. So…
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T-Mobile Begins Offering a Limited Pilot Home Internet Service As They Work on Their 5G Home Internet
Today T-Mobile announced that they have started to test home internet services using LTE. This program is looking for 50,000 households to start testign out T-Mobile’s new home internet services ahead of their 5G home internet services launch. “Two weeks ago, I laid out our plans for home broadband with the New T-Mobile. Now, we’re already…
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5G Home Internet Is Coming to Denver & 16 Other Markets for $50 a Month
This week Cord Cutter News had an opportunity to talk with Starry, a startup from some of the team behind Aereo, which has slowly been rolling out 5G fixed wireless home Internet. Currently Starry offers 5G home Internet in Boston, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and New York City for $50 a month. Now Starry has…
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T-Mobile Plans to Bring 5G Home Internet to 90% of Americans
This week T-Mobile filed a new FCC document pushing for their merger with Sprint, and it included new details about their 5G home internet plans. According to T-Mobile, they plan to bring 5G Home Internet to 90% of Americans. To do this T-Mobile says they need to merge with Sprint. “What T-Mobile has done for…
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Verizon Plans to Launch 5G Home Internet Nationwide
Verizon has been one of the leaders when it comes 5G home Internet. Many had worried that 5G home Internet would be limited to only a few markets as Verizon rolled out 5G for mobile phones. Now Verizon has confirmed that 5G home Internet will come to every market that 5G mobile Internet is in.…
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Why 5G Internet Is So Important to the Future of Cord Cutting
Recently you may have read a lot about 5G home Internet. Last year, Verizon launched 5G home Internet in a handful of cities with 30 more on the way this year. T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T have all also announced plans to roll out 5G this year. Even companies like DISH and Charter are busy working…
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Sprint is Launching 5G Services in May 2019
Today at the MWC event in Barcelona Sprint announced that they plan to roll out 5G services in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, and Kansas City as soon as May 2019. Sprint went on to say that they plan to offer 5G services in Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, Phoenix, and Washington D.C. before the end of June…