With the entire 5G build out for residential data customers, it seems as if 5G will be offered in the same footprint as Fios. Do you think they may sell Fios off to anyone such as Frontier?
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For home broadband, nothing can beat a fiber connection. The 5G home broadband strategy was created because fixed 5G is easier than mobile, and it was available in theory a few years before 5G mobile handsets became widely available.
5G is really more important for mobile applications in part because the new spectrum and backhaul helps alleviate LTE congestion issues.
Verizon has already built its FiOS fiber network. No need to eliminate it since, as others have noted, it's complementary.
Other companies will deploy 5g, so it will be available in the Fios footprint, therefore Verizon will have to make their 5g available too. Other wireless carriers will be competing for 5g to the home.
Unfortunately, no wires = no tech
All this talk about the technical pros and con of the two choices is completely irrelevant. The only thing that matters is that FiOS has to be installed and serviced by union workers. 5g is wireless... It can be installed by more economical, less entitled non union contractors. Game over. All 5g needs to be is passable from a performance standpoint. Marketing will convince customers that it is a safe and superior product. 5g WILL move ahead. It WILL overlap FiOS. VZ WILL do anything necessary to convert everyone to the union free 5g. 5g is not about the next technological advancement to VZ. It's all about relieving itself from the burden placed on it by the unions.
Fios and 5g will likely complement each other. I doubt they will compete in locations other than urban areas if any. Fios / fiber in general is still far superior to wireless and has a much higher theoretical capacity. No worries here.
Wires will be replaced by wireless technology. No need for wires, it's just a matter of time and this will benefit us.
Lol. It’s in the footprint of Fios because that’s where the fiber is.
Fios is a dead product.are your garages still crazy busy installing fios..answer NO.writing is on the wall
Verizon Puts 5G Wireless Home Broadband Expansion on Hold Until Late 2020
https://stopthecap.com/
Verizon will hold off on expanding its millimeter wave 5G wireless home broadband service until at least the second half of 2020, citing equipment availability issues.
Ronan Dunne, executive vice president and group CEO of Verizon’s Consumer Division, told attendees at a Citi investor’s conference that Verizon’s initial introduction of Home 5G was just a market test, and until newer high-powered wireless routers arrive that will be capable of more robust reception of the very high frequencies the service works on, Verizon will not expand the service further.
FiOS would be the better product if it didn't come with the union. 5g does an end run on the union, and it will get betterand faster eventually. 5g is superior in the eyes of the company
Of course you will get 5G if you do not have FIOS now. That is the whole point to go after the cable companies in those areas where FIOS is unavailable
5G will be built out everywhere LTE is eventually, but that will take years. What happens to FIOS is anyone’s guess.
If you can’t get Fios now, you won’t get 5G then.
If you have Fios available now, you don’t need 5G
Fios is far and away the superior product of anything out there.
Ivan was right on the money. Lowell and Hans...dreamers who are going to have a lot of explaining to do
The FiOS footprint covers what? 2% of the country?
Frontier? Really? You are talking about 5G and FIOS and yet you are even aware of what is happening to Frontier?
Trolling?
Is that really the 5G plan to build out everywhere? Or just in the NFL cities? When you think about the buildout required to deliver 5G to the large residential communities that are all buried plant and the short reach of 5G how do those two square?