Category: 5G
-
Verizon Is Bringing 5G Home Internet to 30 New Cities in the Second Half of 2019
Good news for Americans stuck with only a few home Internet options. This week Verizon announced plans to bring 5G home Internet to 30 more U.S. cities in the first half of 2019. AT&T also announced that they will start rolling out the mobile version of their home Internet service in the 1st half of…
-
T-Mobile Launches a New Website Promoting 5G Home Internet & The Merger with Sprint
T-Mobile has been pushing the idea that their merger with Sprint will allow them to offer 5G as a cheaper and faster home Internet option compared to cable TV. Now T-Mobile has launched a website to promote both their 5G home Internet and the proposed Sprint merger. The New @TMobile will put the U.S at…
-
T-Mobile Plans to Offer “Affordable In-Home High-Speed Broadband” to Millions of Americans
For years the last thing holding many Americans to their cable TV company has been high-speed internet. Now with 5G T-Mobile is promising to break millions of Americans free from the high cost of cable internet. “We will bring new competition to Big Cable in two ways,” he argues. One is the speed and capacity…
-
Sprint Sues AT&T Over “Misleading” 5G
This week Sprint filed a lawsuit against AT&T in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging violations of both federal and state law. Not only is Sprint requesting that AT&T be stopped from using 5G Evolution, 5GE, and any 5G branding until its network is 5G-standards compliant, Sprint is also…
-
AT&T Sees 5G As a Replacement For Residential Broadband
Today during AT&T’s 4th quarter earnings call AT&T reconfirmed plans to use 5G for home internet. AT&T already has a mobile version of 5G live but plans to launch a fixed 5G home version sometime soon. With 5G home internet, you will be able to get fiber internet speeds without needing to physically run fiber to your…
-
Verizon’s New $40 Visible Phone Service Comes to Android Devices
Looking for a prepaid phone plan with unlimited data and hotspot support? Verizon has new service called Visible that will do just that for only $40 a month. At first the Visible service only worked on iOS, now Verizon is launching support for Android devices. What is Visible? Visible is a new service that will…
-
T-Mobile’s 5G Network Is Now Live, But You Can’t Use It Yet
This week T-Mobile announced that they have launched a 5G network in 30 cities but not for consumers. T-Mobile is proud to announce that the network is live, but T-Mobile won’t launch the network for consumers until devices are ready. T-Mobile plans to launch a 5G phone and a 5G home Internet device sometime in…
-
Verizon Expands Their Free Apple Music Deal
Last year Verizon announced that they would be giving away six months of Apple Music for free to Unlimited customers. Today that deal is being expanded to include six months of Apple Music with all Verizon Beyond Unlimited and Above Unlimited plans starting January 17th, 2019. “When we introduced six months free of Apple Music…
-
T-Mobile TV Will Come Out Before Their 5G In-Home Internet
This week at CES, during an interview with FierceVideo COO Mike Sievert of T-Mobile talked about their new TV service. According to Sievert, the new T-Mobile TV streaming service will come out before their in-home 5G service; however, the 5G in-home service and their TV streaming service will go “hand in hand.” Now that does…
-
Verizon is Spending $1 Million To Help Push 5G Development
Today during Verizon’s keynote address at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show, Verizon Chief Executive Officer Hans Vestberg announced the launch of the Verizon “Built on 5G Challenge.” This new service will help fund innovators to create transformative solutions that leverage 5G connectivity to transform the way people live, work, and play. “When we launched 4G, we…