Verizon has launched 5G wireless home-internet service in Philadelphia. It’s not available to all city residents because of where the company has. But it is competing with Comcast Corp.’s Xfinity service.
Comcast’s network is available to 60 million businesses and homes, and it has signed about 32 million to its internet services.of residential internet customers, a loss of 10,000 connections in the company’s second quarter. Comcast executives attributed some of that loss to new 5G wireless competition in rural areas, though Verizon and T-Mobile also are expanding into cities and suburban areas.
Nationally, Verizon has 384,000 consumer fixed-wireless customers in the second quarter, up from 216,000 in the first quarter, the company reported. Verizon has sold off most of its wireline-based businesses, though it still owns Fios in the Philadelphia area. “People want options,” said Verizon spokesman Andrew Testa. “Most people only have one or two options for home internet.” Verizon’s 5G service will be an additional one, he said.to plug in their address and see what service — Fios or wireless — is available to their locations.