Tag: 5G
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The FCC Approves Samsung’s New 5G Home Router
This week the FCC approved Samsung’s 5G home router in time for Verizon’s 5G launch later this year. Earlier this year Samsung and Verizon announced a collaboration to offer an end to end 5G solution—from the tower to indoor routers. This is a major step closer to the official Verizon 5G service launch. Earlier this…
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Verizon’s Live TV Streaming Service Will Launch Along Side 5G Later This year
This week Verizon held their 1st quarter 2018 earnings call and gave new details about their 5G and live TV streaming plans. According to Verizon, they plan to have 5G launched in three to five markets by the end of 2018. From there Verizon plans to expand their roll out in 2019. “All of those markets…
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AT&T is Building More Cell Towers to Prepare For 5G
Today AT&T announced that in preparation for the rollout of 5G they have partnered with CitySwitch to build more cellphone towers. “Working with CitySwitch means more alternatives to the traditional tower leasing model still followed by many. The traditional model isn’t cost-effective or sustainable,” said Susan Johnson, executive vice president – Global Connections and Supply Chain,…
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AT&T is Rolling Out 5G Foundation to More Than 100 New Markets
2018 is quickly turning into the year of 5G. Now AT&T has announced that they are launching their 5G Evolution technology in parts of 117 markets. Now AT&T offers 5G Evolution technology in 141 markets around the United States. The promise of 5G home Internet is to bring fiber Internet speeds without the cost of running fiber to…
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T-Mobile Announces Plans to Spend an Additional $500 Million on 5G & Offering Up To 50% Off For Military Families
This week T-Mobile announced new 5G plans and a new military discount for Military Families. According to T-Mobile, they plan to roll out 5G internet to military bases around the United States. As part of that push, T-Mobile plans to spend at least $500 million to bring the new faster internet services to military bases. “At…
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AT&T Announces New Details About Their 5G Home Internet Testing
AT&T has been busy testing their 5G wireless internet service with the plan of deploying the service later this year. Now in a blog post AT&T has given new insights into what they learned from their recent tests. Here is a quick overview of each test market and what they learned: Waco, Texas Participants: Small…
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AT&T is Rolling Out New Cellphone Towers to Power 5G Internet
Last night AT&T announced that they have started rolling out new white box cell towers to power 5G internet. These towers leave behind the proprietary routers that AT&T currently uses in their towners. These new towers are built around open standards and can be quickly upgraded via software. “White box represents a radical realignment of the…
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T-Mobile Is Testing 500 Mbps in New York City
T-Mobile has recently been investing into the speed of their networks. Now they are using a new system called Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) in New York City. According to the Ookla’s Milan Milanovic, these new tests are bringing T-Mobile users 500 Mbps down. This is not 5G that T-Mobile says they plan to launch later…
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Dish Plans to Spend a $1 Billion to Roll Out 5G
We have known for some time that Dish was planning to roll out 5G internet service across the United States. Yesterday Dish gave more details about their plans to roll out their new 5G service. During the call Dish announced that they plan to cover 70 percent of the United States in each of the…
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AT&T Announces Plans to Roll Out 5G Internet in 12 Cities By The End of 2018
Last night AT&T announced plans to roll out 5G Internet in 12 cities by the end of 2018. “After significantly contributing to the first phase of 5G standards, conducting multi-city trials, and literally transforming our network for the future, we’re planning to be the first carrier to deliver standards-based mobile 5G – and do it much…