remote surgery. The idea of using 5G as a protected super-Wi-Fi with high
quality of service in part relies on low latency.
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world. T-Mobile’s network in Baltimore, Boston, New York, Providence, and
Washington showed latencies of 10ms to 15ms. That’s better than we’ve ever
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helps support our contention that Verizon’s 5G is the only truly transformative
one so far.
All of this may make you wonder when AT&T and T-Mobile will get
transformative 5G speeds and when Verizon will get plenty of 5G coverage.
Verizon plans to announce nationwide 5G later this year using a technology
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