Verizon touts field testing as rush to 5G intensifies

Partially drowned out by the gadget-driven furor of Mobile World Congress 2016 were announcements this week from Verizon that the company has completed testing of what it’s calling a 5G network, in New Jersey, Texas and Oregon.
Verizon’s partners in the 5G wireless testing included everything from carrier equipment vendors to smartphone makers – Apple, Cisco, Ericsson, Intel, LG, Nokia, Samsung and Qualcomm were all participants. The company claims that it regularly achieved m