Is 5G in use yet?

5G Home Internet service began on October 1, 2018. 5G Ultra Wideband began rolling out on April 3, 2019, and is presently available in parts of 1,700 cities . 5G Nationwide covers well over 2,000 cities.

The 5GTF work helped accelerate the release of the 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) standard in December of 2017. On April 3, 2019 , of we introduced 5G mobile service in parts of Chicago and Minneapolis. Customers in those cities were the first in the world to have a 5G-enabled smartphone connected to a 5G network.

5G is the newest network upgrade that allows people to upload and download data faster while also letting more devices access the internet simultaneously. More radio signals will be used for this to happen. Verizon and AT&T planned to roll out 5G services to customers on January 19, 2022 .