5G<\/a>\u00a0provides an infrastructure that can\u00a0change the way you live<\/a>, supporting\u00a0faster mobile connections<\/a>\u00a0so that you can stream smoother movies, upload videos quicker, and connect more of your devices to the internet with fewer delays.<\/p>\n However, due to multiple factors like testing and regulations,\u00a05G can’t be rolled out instantly<\/a>, so service isn’t available everywhere just yet. Still, frequent progress is being made for a speedy rollout,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Not in the US? See\u00a05G Availability Around the World<\/a>\u00a0for release dates in other countries like Japan,\u00a0China<\/a>, and\u00a0Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n Verizon currently offers\u00a05G broadband internet<\/a>, called\u00a05G Home Internet<\/a>\u00a0and powered by 5G Ultra Wideband,\u00a0in hundreds of cities. Some of those locations include Houston TX, Sacramento CA, Indianapolis IN, Los Angeles CA, Chicago IL, Detroit MI, Minneapolis MN, St. Paul MN, Atlanta GA, Dallas TX, Denver CO, and San Jose CA. 5G Home\u00a0Internet service\u00a0began on October 1, 2018.<\/a><\/p>\n 5G Ultra Wideband<\/a>\u00a0began rolling out on April 3, 2019, and is presently available in parts of 1,700 cities. 5G Nationwide covers well over 2,000 cities.<\/p>\n Verizon customers with a qualifying plan pay as low as $35 \/month for their home 5G service. The 5G plans are month-to-month (not\u00a0<\/em>annual contracts), and have no early termination fees or penalties.<\/p>\n There are no data caps and subscribers can expect speeds ranging from 300 Mbps to up to around 1 Gbps, depending on location.\u00a0This video from Verizon<\/a>\u00a0shows one 5G Home Internet user’s download, upload, and latency results.<\/p>\n Mobile 5G service from Verizon began in early April 2019.<\/p>\n Parts of 1,700 cities have access to 5G Ultra Wideband right now (here’s the map<\/a>), including Chicago IL, Minneapolis MN, Denver CO, Providence RI, St. Paul MN, Atlanta GA, Detroit MI, Indianapolis IN, Washington DC, Phoenix AZ, New York City NY, Panama City FL, and others.<\/p>\n All of Verizon’s plans, mobile and prepaid, include access to 5G Nationwide. The Play More, Do More, and Get More Unlimited plans include access to 5G Ultra Wideband.<\/p>\n Visible<\/a>\u00a0uses Verizon’s towers for service and is also 5G-compatible.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n AT&T claimed nationwide 5G status in 2020<\/a>. Beginning December 21, 2018, and continuing currently, the company offers mobile 5G in thousands of cities.<\/p>\n 5G from AT&T is available in a few forms…<\/p>\n One operates on the mmWave spectrum and is called\u00a05G+<\/a>. It’s\u00a0available in over 50 cities<\/a>, including parts of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, West Hollywood, Jacksonville, Orlando, Atlanta, Las Vegas, New York City, King of Prussia, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Waco, and others.<\/p>\n Their low-band 5G network works in over 24,000 cities and towns, including Birmingham AL, Indianapolis IN, Los Angeles CA, Milwaukee WI, Pittsburgh PA, Providence RI, Rochester NY, San Diego CA, San Francisco CA, San Jose CA, Wichita KS, Dayton OH, Boston MA, Allentown PA, Brown County IN, Hancock County GA, Hancock County OH, Harrisburg PA, Topeka KS, Trenton NJ, and others.<\/p>\n AT&T 5G+ using C-Band spectrum sits between those other two types, provides a combination of ultra-fast speeds and wide coverage.<\/p>\n AT&T 5G+ mid-band is a bit of both, so it provides a combination of speeds and wide coverage.<\/p>\n See\u00a0AT&T Maps<\/a>\u00a0for a detailed look at the coverage area.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n T-Mobile\u00a0launched their nationwide 5G network on December 2, 2019<\/a>, and continues to add more locations to its coverage area. The\u00a0Metro by T-Mobile prepaid service<\/a>\u00a0started offering access to the 5G network on December 6, 2019.<\/p>\n Sprint and T-Mobile merged into one company<\/a>. If you’re a Sprint user, depending on the phone you have, you’ve lost 5G coverage in some areas where service was previously available.<\/p>\n In April 2021,\u00a0T-Mobile Home Internet<\/a>\u00a0launched, which brings 100 Mbps speeds directly to eligible homes.\u00a0At launch<\/a>, over 30 million homes were eligible to sign up.<\/p>\n T-Mobile has confirmed that on the 600 MHz spectrum, one 5G tower can transmit signals over\u00a0one thousand square miles<\/a>.<\/p>\n Compared to millimeter waves which cover a very small area, low-band waves can blast 5G coverage over hundreds of square miles from just one cell tower.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Users can one day\u00a0expect to achieve an average download speed of 450 Mbps<\/a>, with maximum 5G speeds around 4 Gbps by 2024.<\/p>\n Google Fi<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Simple Mobile<\/a>\u00a0are providers that use T-Mobile’s towers, so they also offer nationwide 5G service.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n UScellular’s<\/a>\u00a05G internet service began on March 6, 2020. It’s available through all of their plans, but coverage is quite sporadic, with some states having widespread coverage, and others with essentially no 5G access.<\/p>\n The company\u00a0expects 1 million households will have 5G access<\/a>\u00a0before 2024. See\u00a0the coverage map<\/a>\u00a0for current coverage details.<\/p>\n The company began testing 5G for\u00a0fixed wireless access<\/a>\u00a0in 2016 with Nokia, followed by rural and urban 5G testing with Ericsson in 2017. In early 2019, they again tested various 5G use cases with Ericsson, like virtual reality, augmented reality, and massive MIMO, in both urban and rural areas.<\/p>\n Their\u00a0Home Internet<\/a>\u00a0page advertises $50 \/month plans.\u00a0Here’s the current list of cities<\/a>\u00a0getting FWA next.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dish\u00a0launched a beta version of their 5G network in September 2021<\/a>. There’s a separate website called\u00a0Project Genesis<\/a>\u00a0where you can check availability using your address. It runs on AT&T’s network.<\/p>\n Service started in Las Vegas in May 2022, and\u00a0expanded to more than 120 cities<\/a>\u00a0by mid-June 2022, which is over 20 percent of the US population. By June 2023, Dish’s 5G service was\u00a0available to over 70% of the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n C Spire<\/a>, the largest privately held wireless provider in the US,\u00a0launched a 5G fixed wireless access service<\/a>\u00a0in December 2018. It started for select customers across Mississippi, but is now available elsewhere. Check\u00a0their 5G availability<\/a>\u00a0to see if service is offered where you live, or\u00a0fill out this form<\/a>\u00a0to express your interest in getting it in your neighborhood. It’s said to offer no data cap, no installation fee, and no long-term contract, for $50 \/month with 120 Mbps download speeds.<\/p>\n You can get it free by becoming a\u00a05G Internet Hub Home<\/a>, which is where you agree to let the company attach the appropriate equipment to your house which is then relayed to your neighbors, thus extending their network.<\/p>\n The 5G FWA service uses 28 GHz equipment provided by Phazr. Despite the standard service speed set at 120 Mbps, users have reportedly been able to achieve download speeds of up to 750 Mbps and upload speeds as fast as 600 Mbps, with latency as low as 8 ms.<\/p>\n The company’s president says that C Spire “plans to deploy fixed wireless internet service to thousands of consumers and businesses across the state over the next several years.<\/em>“<\/p>\n In October 2020,\u00a0C Spire rolled out mobile 5G<\/a>\u00a0in Mississippi. Brookhaven and Columbus were chosen as the initial 5G markets. In 2021, they\u00a0unveiled a $1B investment<\/a>\u00a0to accelerate deployment in Mississippi and Alabama.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Charter’s\u00a0Spectrum<\/a>\u00a0is rolling out services across dozens of cities, including Omaha, Dallas, Boston, Detroit, Washington D.C., St. Paul, Denver, Miami, Spokane, and Kansas City. Check specific coverage with\u00a0their 5G map<\/a>.<\/p>\n Customers on their unlimited plan can get 5G service for no additional cost.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Comcast (Xfinity)<\/a>\u00a0offers 5G through an MVNO agreement with Verizon. It’s included in their data plans\u00a0at no extra charge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Their 5G network\u00a0has been available nationwide<\/a>\u00a0since October 14, 2020. Check out\u00a0Xfinity’s network page<\/a>\u00a0to see where service is available now and to shop for a plan.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Starry<\/a>\u00a0has fixed 5G services available in Boston MA, Denver CO, Los Angeles CA, New York City NY, and Washington DC. The\u00a05G plan is $50 \/month<\/a>\u00a0for 200 Mbps speeds and no data cap.<\/p>\n The company has plans to bring 5G to homes in other US cities, but it’s unclear when it will take place. They include Cleveland OH, Chicago IL, Houston TX, Dallas TX, Seattle WA, Detroit MI, Atlanta GA, Indianapolis IN, San Francisco CA, Philadelphia PA, Miami FL, Memphis TN, Phoenix AZ, Minneapolis MN, Manchester NH, Portland OR, and Sioux Falls SD.<\/p>\n Starry Connect<\/a>\u00a0is a program that provides free or low-cost 5G internet to buildings in low-income areas. See\u00a0Starry: Technology<\/a>\u00a0to learn more about how they’re implementing 5G.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nex-Tech Wireless<\/a>\u00a0and Ericsson\u00a0reached a deal in April 2020<\/a>\u00a0to deliver 5G. In March 2020, they were deploying 5G-ready sites, and in late 2021 began offering 5G service\u00a0in these areas of the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n US Mobile<\/a>\u00a0is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) that operates on Verizon’s and T-Mobile’s networks. 5G is available\u00a0on all of their plans<\/a>\u00a0from $25 \/month.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 5G became available from Mint Mobile in July 2020. Since it uses T-Mobile’s network, it’s available from those same cities. It’s free on all their plans.<\/p>\n You can read more about it, and find compatible devices, on their\u00a0Mint Mobile 5G<\/a>\u00a0page.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Boom! Mobile runs their service using other networks’ towers, and one option they have is 5G.\u00a0Boom! Red<\/a>\u00a0is the plan type that supports 5G.<\/p>\nUS 5G Rollout<\/span><\/h2>\n
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\n<\/div>\nVerizon<\/span><\/h2>\n
Verizon 5G Home Internet<\/span><\/h3>\n
Verizon Mobile 5G<\/span><\/h3>\n
AT&T<\/span><\/h2>\n
T-Mobile & Sprint<\/span><\/h2>\n
UScellular<\/span><\/h2>\n
Dish<\/span><\/h2>\n
C Spire<\/span><\/h2>\n
Charter<\/span><\/h2>\n
Comcast<\/span><\/h2>\n
Starry<\/span><\/h2>\n
Nex-Tech Wireless<\/span><\/h2>\n
US Mobile<\/span><\/h2>\n
Mint Mobile<\/span><\/h2>\n
Boom! Mobile<\/span><\/h2>\n