Verizon Expects Pre-Commercial Trials of 5G in Early 2017, CEO Says
Verizon will launch pre-commercial trials of 5G in the first three months of 2017, CEO Lowell McAdam said at a financial conference. “We’ve moved that up from a general 2017 comment,” McAdam said at the UBS conference. He compared 5G…
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to wireless fiber. Verizon now deploys fiber to the home and then Wi-Fi within the home, he said. “This will allow you to stop anywhere from 200 feet to a 1,000 feet, somewhere in that range we think from the home, and then make it a wireless last leg into the home,” he said Tuesday. “I think that's going to be the predominant architecture for wireless service.” The first launches of 5G will be fixed rather than mobile, he said. McAdam also said he hopes Donald Trump's election as president presages corporate tax reform. But he said more will be revealed as the new administration takes office in January. “I think it's too early to tell” what the change will mean, McAdam said. “Those of you that follow Verizon know that we didn't get into Twitter wars with one of the candidates and we didn't publish blogs favoring one over the other.”