Verizon CEO: We'll switch to 5G standard when it's final, but won't wait for it

Verizon’s CES announcement of a small-scale U.S. 5G rollout in 2018 may have been met with a mix of uncertainty and disbelief, but CEO Lowell McAdam was unambiguous in a conference call today: 5G is indeed coming this year, critics be damned. Dismissing rivals who portrayed Verizon as focused on “fixed, pre-standards 5G” instead of mobile, […]