AT&T dampens the enthusiam over Verizon’s 2016 5G field trial

Last week, Verizon got everyone buzzing about 5G. Not only did the nation’s largest carrier say that field trials for the next generation wireless service would start next year, but chief information and technology architect Roger Gurnani said that “some level of commercial deployment” would begin by 2017. But by telling consumers not to get too carried away, AT&T is playing its usual part as the buzzkill.

Most in the industry don’t see 5G launching until 2020 at the earliest. So AT&T Mobility CEO Glen Lurie, talking at the CTIA trade show last week, made it clear that it’s main …

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