Verizon Executive Vice President sees 5G network Propelling the ‘Smart city dream’

With Verizon Unleasing 5G in the United States, consumer are taking notice.

Verizon has been the first cellular company in the U.S and the first in the world releasing 5G with the 5G home service. By the end of the year, 2019 Verizon will be in over 30 major cities in the U.S Verizon has just Launched the first device on 5G. The Samsung S10 5G smartphone.

As Verizon continues to release the fifth generation of cellular mobile communications, new and advanced features will emerge from the ability of lightning-fast cellular speeds and super low latency. When you think about the changes that 5G will have to offer, anything from cars talking to cell phones, cell phones talking to buildings and really the realizing the smart city dream.

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Sprint adds Samsung’s Galaxy s10 5G to be released on June 21.

As Sprint prepares to add more 5G cities, they also are adding another 5G phone to its lineup. Sprint has launched 5G service in four cities last month. Sprint has released they are going to be adding the Samsung’s Galaxy S10 5G , The New 5G phone will be joining the already released 5G phones such as the LG V50 Thin Q 5GPhone and the HTC 5G Hub home hot spot.

Sprint will be selling the Samsung Galaxy S10 to the regular consumers. Unlike AT&T the has announced this week that S10 5G phone has only been available to the Business customers. This New 5G phone does not come cheap, as the 256GB phone will cost upward of 1,300 and will requires a subscription to Sprints highest-tier Unlimited Premium plan, starting at $80 a month for a single line.

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AT&T’s fake 5G icons aren’t going away despite a settlement with Sprint

AT&T is going to continue to use the misleading 5G E-marketing for the 4G LTE-A network after the false advertising Lawsuit.

At&t and Sprint met at the US District Judge Vernon Broderick yesterday the 22nd of April, informed him that they had reached a settlement in principle, Broderick wrote in an order paving the way for this case to be dismissed. Broderick ordered the cellular carriers to submit a stipulation of voluntary dismissal no later than tomorrow the 24th of April or a joint letter on the status of the settlement.

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5G speeds have been predicted to be as high as 100 times faster than a mobile device using 4G.

Most analysts believe that having widespread 5G networks available in the United states till at least end of 2019 and likely 2020,
says Fung—but even then, “there aren’t even very many phones that are capable of taking advantage of this technology in the United States.”

What is millimeter wave technology?

5G networks have many different telecommunication technologies on the table for creating the 5G network. One of these would be utilizing the millimeter wavelengths. This would relieve the more congested Radio bands that our everyday devices communicate with currently. This will allow the 5G devices to broadcast over millimeter waves frequency.

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President Trump announces new 5G initiatives “It’s a race ‘America must win’”

On April 12, 2019, President Donald Trump spoke out about 5G deployment in the United States with the FCC

The president said that 92 markets of 5G will be ready by the end of 2019. Trump has explained that we will be outpacing South Korea, Stating that South Korea will have 48 markets live by the end of 2019.

Recent information has estimated that 275 billion dollars have been invested in the 5G network. This has created 3 million American jobs and also added $500 billion to our economy.

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Verizon’s 5G network is confusing and difficult according to recent tests.

Verizon recently activated the 5G network in Chicago and Minneapolis on Wednesday. The 5G network should be much faster and the way we use our smartphones should be greatly improved. But some early testing from Cnet and The Verge in Chicago suggest it has not had greatest results.

Cnet has wrote a article explaining the early testing of the 5G network with the Motorola Moto Z3 will require a $200 5G accessory to allow access to the 5G network.

CNet Article
“Even carefully positioned a few feet away from the 5G node, the large on-screen icon exclaiming Verizon’s 5G network toggled back and forth from 4G to 5G,” CNET said. “After two hours, we had run maybe one clean Speedtest.net app side by side with the Galaxy S10 Plus.” Samsung’s phone is a 4G LTE device. “

The Verge said
“coverage is so extremely sparse that, for right now, I’d caution anyone against buying the 5G Moto Mod and paying Verizon an extra $10 every month to receive 5G,” even though it found “blazing fast data speeds.”

Verizon explained to CNBC why the network might have dropped in and out, but cautioned it did not know where the news outlets tested its network.

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Verizon Turns On the Switch for 5G in Minneapolis, Chicago.

Verizon has finally unleashed 5G to Minneapolis and Chicago on Wednesday the 3rd of April 2019. The planned launch date was not till April 11th.

With the 5G service now available in these areas, the only cell phones that are able to work with the 5G service is the Motorola’s Moto z3, This phone will require the expansion clip on that allows the phone to support the 5G service. Verizon has explained that they are going to start releasing other 5G phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G during the first half of the 2019 year.

The 5G service will be offering upwards of 1 Gbps of throughput speeds. But with the currently released 5G being in the early stages, the new 5G cell phones you will be expected to see 450 Mbps and extremely low latency below 30 milliseconds. Verizon is going to be expanding and continuing to work with there engineers to get the network upgraded and increase overall performance.

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Samsung’s Galaxy S10 5G pricing puts an early 5G fear to rest

The manufacture Samsung prepared to announce the first 5G Smartphones, Samsung said the early prototypes looked thick and carried of high pricing. Samsung recently released specs that the Galaxy S10 5G phone will be 7.94 Millimeters thick. Last month Samsung announced they will also be offering the Galaxy Fold, this was demonstrating that not all 5G phone would be thick. Pricing on these Phones could be around $1,500.00 or even more for these 5G smartphones.

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AT&T’s “5G E” is actually slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G

AT&T’s newest 5G E service has been found to be slower then Verizon’s and T-mobiles advanced 4G LTE networks, found by a study done by Opensignal.

At&T has tried to trick customers into believing that 4G LTE-A was a 5G service. But to find out speeds don’t even compare to 4g LTE speeds that Verizon and T-mobile offer. Speed test completed by the source Opensignal has found the average speeds of AT&T 5G E Network are 28.8 Mbps. These speeds are less than Verizon that offers 29.9 Mbps average and T mobile that offers 29.4 Mbps.

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For each network, this shows the average speed of LTE-Advanced ("5G E") phones versus the average speed of other 4G phones.

Verizon plans charges an add on of $10 for 5G access

Verizon will be launching the 5G mobile service in April of 2019, 5G will only be offered in two cities at first, and the customers will have an extra $10 a month to access it. Verizon will be releasing the 5G in select areas of Chicago and Minneapolis, eventually will be covering more then 30 cities in 2019.

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