The defunct LG Wing is getting Verizon C-band, because 5G in this country is silly
by Allison Johnson from The Verge - All Posts on (#5ZBKK)
The LG Wing is cleared for takeoff on Verizon's newest 5G spectrum. | Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Verizon announced this week that the LG Wing will be getting an update that will allow it to use Verizon's newest 5G spectrum - over a year after LG left the smartphone business altogether. The LG Wing has been certified to use mid-band spectrum called C-band, an important piece of Verizon's 5G network that delivers better-than-LTE speeds and wide-ranging signal. Verizon spokesperson George Koroneos says that the update started arriving on devices yesterday and will continue to be pushed out through the rest of the week.
That's good news if you're one of the few people who bought an LG Wing, and really a testament to LG for making good on its promise to keep providing some support for its devices. But why is a one-and-a-half-year-old...