Verizon will offer 5G Home Broadband starting October 1 for a price of $ 50 to $ 70

Verizon announced today that it will begin offering its fixed 5G fixed broadband service on October 1, 2018 in four cities: Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and Sacramento. Dubbed Verizon 5G Home, the service will be available to current Verizon Wireless customers at a price of $ 50 per month, and new customers for $ 70 per month.

The revelation of pricing and date details puts an end to two of the biggest mysteries surrounding Verizon's 5G fixed service, although these details are particularly complex. Verizon's new website, FirstOn5G.com, will provide information and pre-ordering opportunities for interested 5G customers in these four cities by Thursday, September 13 at 8:00 am (Eastern time). Consumers who register will receive Verizon 5G Home for free for three months, after which "current Verizon Wireless customers with an eligible smartphone plan" will pay $ 50 per month and others will pay $ 70 per month, taxes and fees including. .

Equally interesting is the fact that Verizon promises "no additional hardware costs" and promises customers "typical network speeds of around 300 Mbit / s and, depending on the location, top speeds of almost 1 GB, without data limitation. cord cutters interested in getting out of their broadband cable offerings, and Verizon has already said it will work with Apple and Google to offer some free TV services on the network.

Verizon executes a plan announced early in the year 2018 and states that it "is the first company to offer 5G broadband Internet service to consumers and that it should be the first to offer a 5G mobile service. comes with an asterisk. Rival AT & T has promised to launch the first 5G mobile network in the United States in 12 cities, however using mobile access points rather than smartphones.

Motorola introduced a Moto Mod 5G accessory for its newly released Moto Z3, but the accessory was due to arrive in 2019; this may indicate that its launch date in the United States will be earlier. Samsung and Ericsson are among Verizon's confirmed hardware partners for fixed 5G service.

The carrier today announced that it will market its 5G offerings as "5G Ultra Broadband Network," a marketing effort to invest in high-bandwidth optical fiber and millimeter-wave infrastructure. The company is not alone in making these investments, but T-Mobile, another small competitor, is also building a multi-band 5G network across the country, and AT & T has made significant national investments in its own tours.