Verizon to launch first 5G pilot services by mid-2017

(Telecompaper) Verizon announced plans to deliver the first 5G services to customers in specific markets by the middle of this year. The company said it will offer 5G "pre-commercial" services to select customers in 11 markets throughout the country, based on "several hundred cell sites that cover several thousand customer locations". The pilot service will be available during the first half of 2017 in the metropolitan areas Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Bernardsville (NJ), Brockton (MA), Dallas, Denver,