Gadgetory

5g is going to be a lot of things most importantly though for consumer expect exceedingly high throughput than you see today so throughput measured in tens of gigabits per second very low latency single-digit latency which means the response time from your request to the action you get from the network will be much shorter than it is today and expect the network that can handle the ability to to accommodate multiple millions and possibly billions of machinae Machine connections so if you think you want to take a practical example let's think about the Game of Thrones catalog so there's five seasons of Game of Thrones roughly 10 10 episodes per season probably around 500 megabits megabytes of storage per show today download that entire catalog probably take well over an hour that's at roughly 50 megabits per second on LTE which you see today quite a bit with 5g when you start to measure tens of gigabits throughput in that scenario you're downloading that entire catalog in under a minute when you look at the range of opportunities that are created by throughput measured in gigabits in a wireless environment the opportunities are almost limitless so we expect a lot of innovation to occur once that network foundation is set that will open up new use cases and new customer scenarios that we can't really even envision today at some point in time absolutely you'll need a 5g phone and that's part of the evolution of wireless technology overall as networks are built technologies developed then the ecosystem as a whole flourishes and you get 5g phones you get 5g devices you get 5g routers you'll see Internet of Things connected devices that rely on 5g as well what we're doing at Verizon here is pushing that envelope very very hard and we want to advance that ecosystem rapidly we're doing field technical trials right now locations all around the country and we want to see that brought to market over the next couple years indoor coverage is a function of solid design and 5g being no different really any other technology is when you want to cover an area you have to have good silent engineering principles to get RF to that location so when you think of indoor coverage with 5g as the operators deploy 5g technology at Verizon we deploy coverage for inside buildings from the inside of the building 5g will use some of those very same principles and it also allow coverage from outside to inside you know can you develop broadband service at a cost point that's incredibly efficient both for the operator and the customer and that's what we're trying to figure out right now