The nation’s largest wireless and home telephone service provider, Verizon Communications Inc. has made another noteworthy move to stay in the lead!
With this move, the telephone service provider aims to front-run the 5G race going on among all the wireless telecommunication leaders.
The company has made a recent announcement of delivering its fifth-generation, pre-commercial 5G services to select markets in the USA.
Verizon’s Growing Network
The largest prepaid home phone service provider – Verizon, has proven out to be the world’s largest phone and internet services network with thousands of customer locations.
Along with its best and cheapest home phone service, the telecommunications giant has been serving in the mobile communications space, broadband services, home television, IoT, and even in drone management.
Thus, with an increasing customer base, Verizon has been growing at a tremendous pace.
Picked from this vast network of Verizon, the 11 US cities tapped for the 5G user trials are listed as – Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Bernardsville (NJ), Brockton (MA), Dallas, Denver, Houston, Miami, Sacramento, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.
What’s to expect
The vast home telephone service provider is planning on delivering 5G broadband services to the mentioned 11 US cities, via a wireless connection. The service is to be provided to the homes and offices using Verizon’s broadband connection.
Verizon has described it as another step to commercialize their gigabit broadband service to homes and offices through their new 5G network.
The 5G home service provided by Verizon is expected to feature an outdoor antenna that provides a Wi-Fi connection and helps connect devices present within the house.
According to a research, Verizon has a total of 112.1 million subscribers including the customer base of its home telephone service, long distance services, broadband connection and mobile network.
The company is making the best use of such a huge user base to introduce its fifth-generation (5G) services.
“5G technology innovation is rapidly evolving,” said Adam Koeppe, the Vice President of Network Planning at Verizon.
“Network density is increasing to meet the demands of customers, and following the FCC’s aggressive action on 5G spectrum, the time is right to deliver the next generation of broadband services with 5G”, he added.
Collaborations
The latest 5G technology by Verizon is to be implemented with a close collaboration of Verizon’s 5G Technology Forum Partners.
“Ericsson’s partnership with Verizon in rolling out 5G customer trials is accelerating the global 5G ecosystem,” mentioned Rima Qureshi, the Head of Region North America at Ericsson.
“These end-to-end solutions are a key step for preparing Verizon’s network for commercial deployment with different 5G scenarios and use cases”, she added.
As the 5G network requires some modern modems for building connections, the companies like Qualcomm and Samsung have announced the delivery of some high-tech and more useful modem devices.
Final Thoughts
With an increasing spectrum of services, Verizon has been growing much beyond its basic home telephone service.
Though the 5G network is supposed to be commercialized by the year 2019 or 2020, the user trial is to be carried on by Verizon by mid-2017.
This 5G user trial might prove out to be greatly profitable for Verizon. With these services, the company will be able to deliver a faster internet speed to the consumer, making it competitive with their cable-TV service.
Through a partnership with companies like Ericsson and Qualcomm, Verizon is planning on hitting it big in the domain of 5G technology, before its leading competitors.