Verizon network leader stresses the importance of being first to 5G

The Verizon 5G Welcome Service starts on October 1

Verizon has detailed its "Verizon 5G Home" wireless fixed access service this week at Mobile World Congress Americas, and will begin offering residential broadband plans on Oct. 1 in four markets: Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and Sacramento. While the premiere of 5G initially provoked a mixed reaction, Verizon Network Manager Nicki Palmer in an interview with RCR Wireless News, swept the critics and reiterated, "This is end-to-end 5G. It will evolve. Mobility arrives. "

AT & T is working on standards-based mobile 5G services in some markets by the end of the year, but it's important to be the first in the market, Palmer said. "The first market for us is a big problem. Our engineers live for it and we will do it properly. We deal with municipalities in a direct and responsible way. We install equipment safely and responsibly. And we are looking at end-to-end performance, quality and reliability, as we do on our 4G network. These inherent behaviors all translate into 5G networks.

"This first-mover advantage is very significant. This is the way you test and deploy. do you do it in a laboratory or do you get your engineers' hands dirty? That's how you get on the ladder and that's all we do. That's why being first is important to us. Real networks, real customers, finding problems, solving problems. You can not start this unless you go out.

This initial launch is based on a standard developed by Verizon and its partners rather than the 3GPP version 5G 5G New Radio specification. This means that as the equipment becomes available, sites will need to be upgraded with a standard compliant infrastructure. Verizon executives have described the initial offer as "insurgent" and as a means of attacking cable companies outside of Fios' footprint to support the "wire cutter" movement. For customers, the first three months are free and after that, the Verizon Wireless submarines will pay $ 50 a month, $ 70 a month for non-subscribers. There is no hardware charge and no data limit; they expect to see speeds around 300 Mbps "and, depending on the location, top speeds of nearly 1GB, with no data limitations," according to the company.

"I'm not going to say that everything will always be rosy or better. This is wireless. But, at the same time, we saw enough positive results, exceeding our expectations, that we had something. Frankly, we are leading the way with wireless. "

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