Building on its planned commercialization of fixed 5G for residential broadband in four markets this year, Verizon this week said it will offer mobile 5G in 2019, and highlighted device-side support from Motorola’s moto z3, which has a snap-on 5G “mod” slated to hit the market later this year.
The news came out of an event in Chicago on Aug. 2., featuring speakers from Verizon, Motorola and Qualcomm, which provided its Snapdragon X50 modem for the mod, as well as millimeter wave modules described by Mike Finely, Qualcomm’s president of North America, as “really a technology and a capability that many people didn’t think was possible…
