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Verizon to Offer 5G to Friendly Users in 11 Markets by Mid-Year

Verizon to Offer 5G to Friendly Users in 11 Markets by Mid-Year
Sue Marek
Sue MarekFebruary 22, 2017
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Verizon says it will offer pre-commercial 5G services to pilot customers in 11 markets by mid-year. Those markets include Ann Arbor, Michigan; Atlanta; Bernardsville, New Jersey; Brockton, Massachusetts; Dallas; Denver; Houston; Miami; Sacramento, California; Seattle; and Washington, D.C.

Verizon says its 5G pre-commercial network currently includes several hundred cell sites covering several thousand customer locations. The pilot markets will leverage technology that it has deployed in collaboration with its 5G Technology Forum partners.

A year ago Verizon formed the 5G Tech Forum with vendors such as Cisco, Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, Qualcomm, and Apple. The group’s goal was to collaborate on early 5G specs and contribute to the 3GPP 5G standard.

Verizon says that it expects 5G chipsets, infrastructure gear, and devices to be available soon that are based on the proposed 5G specs that the company released in June 2016.

But Verizon isn’t alone in its 5G pilots. AT&T said in January that it was working with Ericsson and Qualcomm to test technology based on the 3GPP’s 5G New Radio (NR) specification in the second half of this year. The tests will include over-the-air field trials and interoperability testing and are intended to accelerate the deployment of standards-compliant 5G NR gear and devices.

Ericsson has already said that its 5G-ready platform that includes radios in the 28 GHz spectrum will be available by year-end. Likewise, Qualcomm said yesterday that it has made its first successful 5G connection based upon the 3GPP’s 5G NR standard.

Last June, the 3GPP agreed on a working plan for Release 15 that included the development of the NR specification and said it anticipated that work would continue until June 2018.

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About Sue Marek

Sue served as SDxCentral's vice president of content from March 2016 to November 2018 where she was tasked with building its IoT and 5G coverage. Prior to joining SDxCentral, Sue was editor-in-chief of FierceMarkets Telecom Group where she oversaw the editorial content of several FierceMarkets’ newsletters including FierceWireless. She also provided editorial guidance for the publications’ websites, webinars, and live events. Sue is a frequent speaker at industry events and has moderated panels for the Consumer Electronics Show, the Competitive Carriers’ Show, PCIA: The Wireless Infrastructure Show, CTIA, Interop, 5G Americas and more. Sue has more than 25 years of experience reporting on the telecom industry.

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