Verizon Will Debut Its 5G Network in 2 Cities Next Month. And This Time There's No Catch

The service will cost $10 extra in Minneapolis and Chicago

The road to the next generation of wireless has thus far been paved with asterisks. Verizon rolled out the first 5G network last year (but the equipment doesn’t meet 5G standards and it only covers home internet) while AT&T rolled out the first mobile 5G network in December (but the service relies on a hotspot device because 5G-compatible phones aren’t available yet) and confused many of its costumers with its “5G -E” label (because 5G-E, or 5G-Evolution, is just a rebrand of 4G-LTE).

But now Verizon may finally be about to debut its first mobile 5G service with no big qualifiers.

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