Verizon pauses 5G Home rollout until actual 5G equipment is ready
Verizon took great pride in being first to roll out “5G” home broadband, but the company has announced that its 5G Home won’t be expanding to other cities beyond the initial four launch markets until later this year. More specifically, it’ll take until sometime in the second half of 2019.
Why the wait? Verizon’s 5G Home is built upon its own, pre-standard 5G communication technology called 5G TF. It does employ some core 5G tech like millimeter wave, but Verizon’s fixed home 5G internet really felt like a rush job to get out ahead of competitors and shout “first!” T-Mobile CEO John Legere slammed it as such, and the fact that Verizon is halting 5G Home’s rollout until it can switch everything over to the industry-backed 5G NR basically…
