Uh huh.. Makes perfect sense.. if you're in marketing.

Ultra-fast.. Yep. Didn't we hear that about LTE as well? That was around the time they discontinued unlimited data and started with the tier platform. Then they said it could handle massive traffic loads, then they said it couldn't. Then it could if you threw more money at them. Which is it?

Honestly, I think they're full of it. It could handle the traffic loads, but where's the profits in that?

I'm all for competition and would love to have more of it at my house. If Verizon wants to compete they will have to deliver at least 100/10 with a 1 TB data cap. That is what I have with Comcast now. I think it is safe to assume they still won't compete on price.

When 5G goes from fixed to mobile how are they going to justify charging $5-$10 per gigabyte on your phone and $65 for 1000 gigabytes at your home?
Verizon Marketing Team: "Challenge Accepted!!!"

With the range of 500 yards can you imagine how many new tower's/ antennas that will be needed to make this work. Nimbys will have a field day with this. And they still will not bring this to truly rural areas and cover everybody in there footprint this will be cherry picked all to hell.

Fixed wireless is nothing like mobile wireless. Mobile wireless is a bunch of towers with cables going to them that create a big field of signal that everyone with a device in its radius can share, so that they dont hafta walk around with cords attached to their phones! The small speed and limited data makes sense because of the technical hurdles and limitations and use case fit (most people don't need to consume all their content while on the move on a small screen they just need to send a message and listen to a song or watch a small video to pass the time)

Fixed wireless wont have all those connections per tower sharing the bandwidth cus it is for a different use case and has a different design, hence no real speed/data limitations. Imagine a network extender that you might use in your house to bounce the signal to a dead spot. It doesn't make the speed really small or reduce how much data you have on your plan does it? Now think of the antennas that verizon will use to replace the last mile or so of the fiberoptic network. Those are like "giga network extenders", and that is their purpose, to make it cheaper/less of a hassle to take a connection to every person's home, so that you don't have to have them dig up your yard or something. That is the purpose, not to have a million users share a source of one wireless connection so that they can walk around with their phones without a cord and still be connected when they need to. You will not have smartphone users fighting with you for bandwidth. Fixed wireless is a different design with a different use case. The reason it hasn't been done before is because the technology for preserving the integrity of a wireless connection wasn't good enough for long distances and for people's homes, but after having matured and advanced through mobile it is now suitable. Remember how before there was no such thing as wifi cus it was too weak. But they made it work, and they made computers into smaller laptops to take advantage so i say give it a chance!

If it's so much like fiber then drop the metering. Price it exactly like FIOS where there is no cost per GB. Until they do that, drop the wireless fiber crap.

So here we are. Verizon will spend HALF as much per subscriber to build this new network, but consumers won't see a dime in savings. They'll pay more because we've been trained to believe wireless "always" has to cost more.

Cap will be absurdly low and any meaningful internet usage (streaming, gaming) will rack up overages. So your choice is to pay up or do without.

End result: Windfall profits for Verizon. Of course they want to get this rolling as soon as 2017. This new network will be a machine that prints money.

McAdam is a vampire with an unquenchable thirst for cash.

 

I hope verizon gets burned launching a not standard tech kind of like what happened to sprint.

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With a "5G"B cap!

In all honesty, though, the only thing "5G" is going to be good for is replacing the connection between your home and the pedestal. Fixed connections over short distances, not a truly "mobile" connection. For that we're going be with LTE for a good long time.

It shouldn't even be called 5G, because it's not a mobile connection. Just because something uses wireless technology doesn't mean it's a mobile product.