The 5G service will be coming to your town. Starting this spring, first Verizon and then AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile began the rollout of the 5G networks. The 5G networks are starting to cover the US from Minneapolis to Dallas and New York to Los Angeles with 5G speeds and faster wireless connections.
Depending on where you live, you may not see a 5G network for a while, especially if you are more rural than Urban. When 5G does come to your area coverage zones may be small and the reception may be spotty. With all the cellular providers, you will need to know what provider will offer the most for your money.
Cost of 5G plans and phones are not cheap, major carriers are starting to release plans and phones over the next year, we will see more 5G phones, and the carriers will adjust their plans. But right now, here’s what we have.
Verizon 5G service has today been activated in four more cities, Atlanta, Detroit, Indianapolis, and Washington DC. Nevertheless, the extremely short-range coverage of the lastest mobile data tech means that the usual awareness applies.
Verizon Official Announcement
Today, Verizon launched 5G Ultra Wideband service in four additional U.S. cities. Customers in parts of Washington DC, Atlanta, Detroit, and Indianapolis will now be able to access Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network, joining Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis, Providence, and St. Paul as Verizon’s first 5G mobility cities. Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband service is available in and around public spaces like parks, monuments, museums, college campuses, and stadiums.
In Washington DC, consumers, businesses and government agencies can initially access Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband service in areas of Foggy Bottom, Dupont Circle, Cardozo / U Street, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, Le Droit Park, Georgetown Waterfront, Judiciary Square, Shaw, Eckington, NOMA, National Mall and the Smithsonian, Gallery Place / Chinatown, Mt. Vernon Square, Downtown, Penn Quarter, Brentwood, Southwest Waterfront, Navy Yard, and nearby Crystal City, VA, as well as around landmarks such as the Ronald Reagan National Airport, United States Botanical Gardens, Hart Senate Building, National Gallery of Art, Lafayette Square, The White House, Freedom Plaza, Farragut Square, George Washington University, Capital One Arena, Union Station, Howard University Hospital, George Washington University Hospital, and Georgetown Waterfront Park.
In Atlanta, 5G Ultra Wideband service will initially be concentrated in parts of the following neighborhoods: Downtown, Midtown, Tech Square, and around such landmarks as The Fox Theater, Emory University Hospital Midtown, Mercedes Benz Stadium, Home Depot Backyard, Centennial Olympic Park, Georgia Aquarium, World of Coca Cola, and parts of Renaissance Park.
In Detroit, 5G Ultra Wideband service will initially be concentrated in parts of the following areas: Dearborn, Livonia, and Troy, including areas around the Oakland-Troy Airport.
In Indianapolis, 5G Ultra Wideband service is initially available in parts of the following neighborhoods, Arsenal Heights, Bates Hendricks, Castleton, Crown Hill, Fountain Square, Grace Tuxedo Park, Hawthorne, Historic Meridian Park, Lockerbie Square, Ransom Place, Renaissance Place, St. Joseph Historic Neighborhood, Upper Canal and Woodruff Place and around such landmarks and public spaces as Garfield Park, and Indiana University School of Medicine.
Business customers and consumers can access the Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband network with one of five 5G-enabled devices – the LG V50 ThinQ 5G, the moto z3, and z4 combined with the 5G moto mod, the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G or the Inseego MiFi M1000.
AT&T says they are on track to unleash nationwide mobile 5G in the first half of 2020.
The AT&T operator explains that they have already completed 60% of its 700Mhz 4G public safety FirstNet deployment now, Which is 5G- Ready for AT&T’s low band spectrum deployment for next year.
The CEO Randall Stephenson explains ” We are on track for nationwide 5G in the first half of 2020. This was announced on the Second-quarter earnings conference call. AT&T currently has its high band 39Ghz millimeter-wave network up in 20 markets in the US.
The CEO Randall Stephenson is especially confident on it FirstNet deployments for 5G. “It’s allowing us to deploy this 5G hardware with one touch on the cell site.” He explains. The FirstNet deployment is expected to be 70% finished by the end of the year.
Pepwave will be releasing the Pepwave Max Transit mini July 24, 2019. The Mini supports Band 71 and band 14 this is FirstNet ready. Band 71 operates at a 600mhz frequency that travels twice as far and works four times better in buildings than conventional LTE bands. This Means that Band 71 provides better coverage in remote areas as well as indoors. FirstNet (band 14) provides first responders with a specialized LTE network with more Priority and network capacity. The Transit mini supports both bands, Providing additional coverage as situation demands.
The Max Transit Mini has added features for vehicular integration. Pepwave has added Ignition sensing, which detects when the ignition starts on the vehicle, this enables the devices to turn on and off as the start-up of the vehicle and shut down. It is also equipped with GPS, enabling you to track the movements of the Vehicle. This process can all be handled from the Incontrol2 fleet management.
As several of the world’s earliest next-generation cellular carriers have unveiled their peak 5G network speeds, others have relied on uncertain promises of “blazing fast” performance to set customer expectations. Today, crowdsourced network coverage service Opensignal actually discovers early 5G service performance in the first country with “widespread 5G adoption” South Korea and the numbers are compelling, as much for where they’re strong as where they’re unsubstantial.
Opensignal found that South Korean 5G users were seeing 111.8Mbps real-world average download speeds, versus 75.8Mbps average speeds with flagship 4G phones that support the fastest or near-fastest late-stage LTE technologies. As other smartphone users saw download speed averaging 47.7Mbps, the study said, with all data coming exclusively from South Korean cities where 5G has been introduced.
This doesn’t mean that 5G speeds are only 111.8Mbps, rather the 5G service being offered to users on a somewhat inconsistent basis has been delivering that speed on average across all cell towers. While 5G phones can take advantage of faster 5G cell towers when they’re available, they otherwise fall back to 4G, bringing down their numbers.
Are 5G speeds as fast as they say? Cellular providers have been foreshadowing the arrival of 5G. The ultra-fast network of the future- for many months now. But we should not get too excited, at least, not yet.
On Friday the 5th of July, T-Mobile officially turned on the switch on it 5G network in parts of New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Cleveland, and Atlanta. So, Henry Parra, who spent years working in the telecommuting cations industry and no heads Consumer Reports phone testing head to downtown Manhattan to test out the 5G network.
Henry found that the 5G service had blazing speeds when the service was available. Learned that finding and keeping the signal wasn’t an easy task. Signal would disappear within a few steps, disconnecting and pushing back over to 4G LTE. The 5G speeds seemed to be great when the connection would stay established.
One of the main selling points with 5G wireless technology to the world is that telecommunications providers have offered the opportunity to enter into new markets and offer new sources of revenue from wireless services. This opportunity to build an Amazon, or something like AWS, leveraging much of the assets that telephone service providers already own. This has been most compelling.
Perhaps 5G engineers have already seen this coming, enterprises and industry groups have begun exploring this issue in reverse. If telephone service providers can build the next cloud using an x86 server and microdata centers to a wireless spectrum in many countries including the United States, There may be enough of the unlicensed spectrum hanging around to pull an offset.
Potentially millions of people do not understand whether their smartphones support 5G technology.
Decluttr, a phone company that offers refurbishment of cell phones. Declutter has surveyed 2,000 US smartphone owners in late May of 2019 and found that about a third of respondents believed that they owned a 5G smartphone. Of the 40 percent are Apple iPhone users. Apple has not released a 5G phone yet. and 31 percent are Samsung owners. Samsung has only released the Galaxy s10 5G phone, This phone has just recently gone on sale a couple of months ago for $1,300. More than 62 percent of the surveyed user thought they had a 5G supported phone device say they have noticed improved mobile service.
When receiving the promised speeds on the 5G network could proved dangerous for your data plan.
A technician that was testing at Randwick has explained. Was testing at the site about 25 minutes in, after several speed tests & downloading PUBG ( Smartphone game) and two movies from Net Flix, I got an SMS alert on my phone. “You have used 50 % of your 20 GB data allowance” Telstra warned me. The sim card I was using was loaned to me by Telstra for testing, but 20GB isn’t an unusually small amount of data.
Even with the so-called unlimited plans, the cellular carriers offer most are throttled to 3G speeds once you hit about 75-100 GB range. Granted you probably will not be running speed test over and over or downloading multiple movies a day, but the whole point of the 5G network is to have super fast data connections and no limits.
In the pitched battle over 5G in the USA, AT&T has been leading the way with fastest peak downloads of 1.8 Gigabytes of data per second. This test was completed in Los Angeles with a Galaxy s10 5G.
The same speed test has been run on Verizon branded Galaxy s10 5G phone. The maximum speed reached on Verizon 5G network was 1.3 Gigabytes of data per second. This test was completed in Los Angeles.
Sprint peaked at 484 Megabits per second using the LG V50 5G smartphone. That’s 3.7 times slower than AT&T’s Highest speed of 1.8 Gigabytes of data per second. The test was completed with Speedtest.net in Dallas.
