Verizon, Cisco and Samsung claim first multi-vendor 5G trial

Verizon was in danger of missing out on the latest flood of US 5G announcements so it called in its mates at Cisco and Samsung to create some hot next-gen action.
Specifically this took the form of deploying what they claim is ‘the first multi-vendor end-to-end 5G trial network in the field,’ which took place in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The deployment is the first product of a 5G vow made by Verizon back in February, which didn’t mention Cisco at the time.
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