(The Washington Post)
Brian Fung February 25 9:51 AM
Sprint customers in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and Kansas City will be among the first to test the company’s 5G wireless network when it launches in May, executives said Monday.
Expect an additional five markets — Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix and Washington, D.C. — to come online by the first half of the year, said Sprint chief executive Michel Combes.
The impending launch could make Sprint the first U.S. wireless carrier to offer a mass-market 5G service for smartphones in a global race to provide faster download speeds and support for new applications such as self-driving cars.
Customers of Google Fi, the wireless service run by Google on Sprint’s network, will be able to connect to Sprint’s 5G capabilities, as well, Combes said — though it is unclear when Google Fi customers will gain access to 5G smartphones that can take advantage of the new technology. For Sprint’s own customers, 5G service will launch on the LG V50 ThinQ 5G, LG’s first 5G-capable smartphone.
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