Rochester, New York – Today, Verizon announced that it now has access to the total amount of 5G C-band spectrum sold in the March 2021 auction, four months ahead of schedule. Rochester residents and visitors will now have full access to 180 MHz of spectrum, triple the amount of 5G bandwidth available to serve customers throughout Rochester. This will allow Verizon to expand and strengthen its 5G Ultra Wideband network more quickly, providing much more capacity to accommodate more customers and more robust services, as well as faster data speeds. becomes possible. This additional frequency will enable Verizon to offer 5G home broadband and business internet services to more customers throughout Rochester.
“Early access to the rest of the C-band spectrum brings us an additional four months earlier than originally predicted. This additional spectrum will make 5G Ultra Wideband available to even more Americans and will help our company , expands the availability of home and business broadband solutions,” said Joe Russo, Verizon’s vice president and president of global networks and technology. “The more spectrum we deploy on our network, the more capacity our customers have to connect.”
Since Verizon began deploying 5G service using C-band spectrum, ultra-fast 5G service has become available to more than 222 million people in 359 markets**, and more than 40 million households have access to Verizon’s 5G service. Access Home Internet and 384,000 new customers are joining. Verizon’s fixed wireless access-based home internet products (both LTE and 5G) reached 2.3 million total FWA customers in the second quarter of this year alone.
Verizon C-band holdings
Verizon acquired 140-200 MHz C-band licenses in all available markets and began rolling out 60 MHz in the first 46 areas in 2022. With additional spectrum being cleared by satellite companies outside of the original 46 areas, Verizon could use some of the previously licensed bandwidth to roll out 5G Ultra Wideband across even more markets. Masu. Now, with final approval from satellite companies, Verizon can use the entire licensed C-band spectrum, averaging 161 MHz coast-to-coast, with access to the full 200 MHz in some markets. It will be. Verizon is introducing equipment that can take full advantage of 200MHz of bandwidth, so with a simple software update, customers can quickly see the effects of this dramatic bandwidth increase within days or weeks. You will be able to do it.
Specifically, Verizon now has access to:
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A minimum of 140 MHz of total spectrum in the continental United States, with an average of 161 MHz nationwide. This is the bandwidth for all available markets, 406 markets in total.
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up to 200 MHz in 158 primarily rural markets covering nearly 40 million people. This further strengthens Verizon’s rural US broadband solutions portfolio.
More services in more places
Accelerated access to best-in-class spectrum holdings will accelerate access to best-in-class spectrum holdings in major metropolitan areas where Verizon’s network is already undefeated in 96.8% (121 of 125 markets) of subway drive tests conducted by the most rigorous scientific testing companies*. means increased capacity and faster speeds* **in the first half of 2023. The additional spectrum allows Verizon to continue expanding coverage of America’s most reliable 5G network, bringing **** 5G Ultra Wideband service to more rural and suburban areas.
*Markets are defined in terms of PEAs or Partial Economic Areas as defined by the FCC.
**Ranking based on RootMetrics® metropolitan RootScore® reports for 125 metropolitan areas tested from January to June 2023: Tested on the best commercially available smartphones on 3 mobile networks across all available network types it was done. Your experience may vary. The RootMetrics Awards are not an endorsement of Verizon.
***Ranking based on RootMetrics® State of 5G in the U.S. report: H2 2022. Tested on the best commercially available smartphones on three mobile networks across all available network types. Your experience may vary. The RootMetrics Awards are not an endorsement of Verizon.
