Verizon has started rolling out 5G home internet. It's apparently pretty fast - not fiber fast, but still pretty fast, and with truly unlimited data for $70 month. Really exposes just how absolute bullshit their mobile plans at roughly $10/gb are. I've heard good things about it, and looking at their 5G map it's been installed in areas very close to my home in Chicago, but the stations need line of sight for internet and I'm about half a block out of the service area.
Click on a neighborhood and look at the dark red areas running on top of the streets. I have no idea how they're going to get 5g base stations covering all of the smaller residential streets; right now only the bigger streets & downtown are well covered. And even then the internet requires an antenna unit in a window with LoS to the base station, which is OK, but not sure how 5g is going to be practical for phones indoors.
The 5G coverage maps are pretty revealing on just how limited the coverage is: https://www.verizon.com/5g/coverage-map/?city=chicago
Click on a neighborhood and look at the dark red areas running on top of the streets. I have no idea how they're going to get 5g base stations covering all of the smaller residential streets; right now only the bigger streets & downtown are well covered. And even then the internet requires an antenna unit in a window with LoS to the base station, which is OK, but not sure how 5g is going to be practical for phones indoors.