Verizon plans to speed up rural 5G service later this year
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Rural customers subscribed to Verizon's 5G network could see a jump in their speeds later this year. The telecommunications giant revealed plans during its quarterly earnings call this week to extend its C-band 5G network - which uses a radio spectrum that enables faster speeds on a wide scale - to more rural and suburban areas by December 2023.
We don't know specifically which areas the expansion will cover. During the earnings call, Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg mentioned that the company's C-band 5G coverage has so far been deployed to 70 out of the 406 available markets, mostly in urban and suburban areas. It's 330 markets left, we will get the C-band," said Vestberg. He didn't clarify how many of these markets would be covered by the...