Hans Vestberg, CTO of Verizon, brought to the central conferences of CES 2018 the issue that has been occupying US operators for several weeks: who will be the first to offer commercial 5G services. The former CEO of Ericsson said that Verizon will do it before AT & T (which foresees the launch by the end of this year), and in the 2019 edition of CES will be showing on stage its 5G network in operations.
"For 5G, one can make different layers (" slices "). Now we are focusing on one layer, which is basically residential broadband to deliver faster superior performance to the market. This is a use case. We can talk about many others, "explained Vestberg. In his presentation, he was accompanied by the president of Qualcomm, Cristiano Amon, and together they anticipated that the deployments of 5G will consist of a combination of bands, including casualties, in order to create a coverage layer of lower bandwidth, and mmWave spectrum to offer performance aimed at applications with lower latency and greater capacity.