On CNBC this week, Verizon exec Lowell McAdam spoke about the progress Verizon has made with their 5G plans and excited millions of SoCal residents when he stated that Los Angeles will join Sacramento as a 5G test market this year. “We bought 36 million miles of fiber so we can have big pipes feeding the cells. We will have hundreds of megahertz of bandwidth to deliver the whole suite of services of 5G,” McAdam said.
McAdam indicated that four markets are due to be part of the 5G rollout in 2018, but only Sacramento and now Los Angeles have been named so far. His confidence in Verizon’s progress towards the promised 2018 launches was evident, as he stated, “I think we’re a lot closer than people think.”