Verizon’s Nationwide 5G Launch Could Be on Pace for New iPhone
- Low-band service will use an unproven spectrum-sharing method
- T-Mobile started 5G last year, while AT&T aims for midyear
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Verizon Communications Inc. plans to launch 5G wireless service nationwide later this year, setting up the possibility that it will be available in time for the fall release of an Apple Inc. iPhone that can use the advanced standard.
Ronan Dunne, head of Verizon’s consumer business, wouldn’t say exactly when the company plans to start the nationwide 5G service. “We think there’s tons of opportunity,” Dunne said during an investor presentation Thursday, adding that it will “launch at the time that’s commercially appropriate during the course of the year.”