Verizon Will Launch 5G Home Internet Access in 2018

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Verizon has announced that it's launching residential 5G broadband (that is, fixed-in-place wireless) in three to five markets starting in the second half of 2018. Most details aren't nailed down at this point, but the rollout will begin in Sacramento, California.

As a first application of fifth-generation wireless, these services will use radio signals, rather than copper or fiber cables, to provide customers with unprecedented wireless speeds for Internet access. As 5G continues to evolve, customers will benefit from a wide array of services -- including broadband, mobile and IoT (Internet of things) -- and the necessary bandwidth and low latency for 3D and virtual reality applications.
 
So will it be treated like mobile (hahahah unlimited) or capped like cable lines?

I am betting on elon musk's satellites to bring any real competition.
 
Ugh. Do not want.

Keep home internet fiber/copper please!

I don't want any of this wireless garbage regardless of the number of G's
 
oROEchimaru said:
So will it be treated like mobile (hahahah unlimited) or capped like cable lines?

I am betting on elon musk's satellites to bring any real competition.
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Google will actually, if they are allowed to. They bought a tech company that had gigabit wireless tech for last mile installs to get around ROW restrictions to peoples homes. They were however reported to the government by the other ISPs who still want it regulated as installing cable into a ROW....Even though it's not, and they were also sued. Now Verizon is trying to turn around and do it with a slower and higher latency tech, probably hoping they can get a foot hold with 5G before Google can get around the legal hurdles. Even more funny is I believe all of the installs for Google with this so far are also in California where Verizon is planning on rolling this out.
 
If this could reach folks when normal broadband does not, I could see the value (assuming it's reasonably priced and not capped to shit). If you could get virtually any other broadband option, though, I'm not sure why you would choose this.
 
If they offer this as an unlimited service, then great. If it has a data cap (of any kind), they can fuck off.
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It'll have an unlimited 20gb cap.
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LOL "Unlimited" 20GB cap
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In areas where one cable company has the monopoly, yes this is needed. You won't have to actually sign up for Verizon's wireless internet service to benefit from it.

Example right now when people in my area call Cox and threaten to leave for another provider if they don't reduce their monthly rate, Cox just laughs because they know there is no other option.
 
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Zarathustra[H] said:
Ugh. Do not want.

Keep home internet fiber/copper please!

I don't want any of this wireless garbage regardless of the number of G's
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Actually I do want. Because the difference with this is there is actually a chance I could get it in the next 10 years. It's a pipedream if you think Verizon would ever run infrastructure through their footprint. That means that you are at the mercy of whatever ISP monopolizes, I mean provides service to your area. My area has cable, but at some point they decided it wasn't worth upgrading us anymore. Our service was stagnant for almost 6 years before they figured they could throw us a bone. If that happens in your area you simply don't have a choice of anything to even jump ship to, because there literally is no other choice.

I'm actually excited that we might see real competition through wireless. AT&T has fixed LTE with 160GB caps in some areas, so if it starts talking off then VZW would likely have to follow because either one could be offering service in the same area. If AT&T and VZW both start expanding fixed LTE then you can bet the other two are going to be jumping into the market. In the next 10 years that could mean that some areas could go from having 0 providers above 10mbps (I only need to travel a few miles from where I life for that to be a reality) to having 4.

Can wireless compete with fiber? Not yet. Does wireless need to compete with fiber? Not yet.
 
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Verizon can suck my left nut. No, wait,....nevermind. No telling what kind of vile disease I might pick up from that.

There are two companies in the world which will never see a dime from me. AT&T and Verizon.
 
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I already have Fixed LTE available through Deutsche Telekom. But, we also have the option to use multi-sim with our wireless plans, so just get an extra-sim, pop it in an LTE router and off you go having your "home" internet available anywhere you want to take it. Go on vacation, take my router. I get 40/40 symmetric with <20ms ping in my house, better than the DSL options currently available.
 
If it weren't Verizon, I might be interested. However, Verizon is the only company right now that I consider worse than Comcast. Several years ago, they reset my contract by 4 months because I called into customer support to report a dead spot where my call dropped, as they requested we do at the time. It cost me $279 in an early termination fee 2 years later, when I switched to AT&T because of the bad coverage in my area. My contract with Verizon started in August of 2004, and I called customer support once in November of 2004, and then switched to AT&T in October of 2006, and somehow got charged the ETF. As badly as Comcast has treated me, with resisting my attempts to cancel services and unreliable services right when I needed it, they never outright ripped me off. Verizon has, and they never apologized for it. It took a class action lawsuit to get something back, and all I got back was $107. The lawyers took the other $172. No, I am NOT trusting Verizon again.
 
You and and I may not see eye-to-eye when it comes to sys admin operating system choices, but I agree 100% about Verizon. I had a similar experience. Only the dead spot was my home. Go 100 feet in any direction and I could get service, but could not get any near my home. Verizon confirmed it. They let me out of the contract, but refused to release my phone number. They said they did not have to release a phone number if the contract is voluntarily terminated.

So, I left my phone number and got another service. Everyone at our office has some horror story about Verizon.
 
I think this product might be available in Alaska. Not sure. I might actually bite next year depending on the data limits. I have been known with a good connection to use TBs in a month.
 
What are the technical specs around 5G? Hasn't there been a lot of hullabaloo about marketing co-opting this term incorrectly?
 
DPI said:
In areas where one cable company has the monopoly, yes this is needed. You won't have to actually sign up for Verizon's wireless internet service to benefit from it.

Example right now when people in my area call Cox and threaten to leave for another provider if they don't reduce their monthly rate, Cox just laughs because they know there is no other option.
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That and prices for cable are protected. The FCC and your local franchising authority determine what "fair" pricing is, so most cable companies, even if more than one in the area, don't compete. This happened way back in the 90's with the "Cable Act", which made claims of massive reductions in cable bills etc etc....One of the first questions on the FAQs about the Cable Act is Why hasn't my cable bill gone down (or has gone up) after the Cable Act? Because you also have a fee on the bill for the local franchising authority and the FCC now as well. :ROFLMAO:
 
[21CW]killerofall said:
If they offer this as an unlimited service, then great. If it has a data cap (of any kind), they can fuck off.

LOL "Unlimited" 20GB cap
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It will be unlimited data, just not unlimited data at 5G speeds.

"Unlimited" does not refer to quality of what you get, you just get as much as you want. And before the argument starts... you technically can't get unlimited due to finite speeds anyways regardless of policy.
 
All Verizon is going to do is some token installation, cut wired service to remote expensive areas, say this tech is ready for roll out but they need more money, get some nationwide taxes approved.. slow rollout to standstill.. years of excuses and token installations.. pocket billions.
 
Yay, they took our tax dollars to roll out wire infrastructure, and we get to use higher latency flakey wireless. VZ really thinking about the people here and not their bottom line........
 
It wasn't "tax" dollars. It was a $5 fee per month, times 140 million phone bills, for 30 years .... to bring 'Fiber' to the home.

Only $200 Billion stolen/defrauded from the American people.
 
As someone stuck with DSL, if they offered this here, where it was even capped at 50 gig for 5g speed than dropped to 4g speed for unlimited, I would bite.
 
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