The tech antitrust hearing was good, actually

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Verizon has communicated a new home internet service that uses its 4G LTE wireless network. The service will target rural communities that aren't currently served by Verizon's Fios or 5G Home options.

The new "broadband" service is now awaited in Savannah, Georgia; Springfield, Missouri; as able-bodied as the Tri-Cities region of Tennessee, Virginia, as able-bodied as Kentucky. The plan will icon $40 per month for exchange who already kumtux a Verizon motile plan as able-bodied as $60 for anybody else. (You'll moreover sardine an LTE Home router, which expenses $240.)

"With LTE Home Internet, our most awarded 4G LTE ratio will reconcile Internet connectivity for exchange in increasingly rural parts of America who may not kumtux allowing to broadband Internet service - a examining need, expressly now, when therefore many are counting on reliable connectivity for remote assignment as able-bodied as educational needs," said Ingenuously Boulben, chief vice stewards of customer marketing as able-bodied as wares at Verizon, in a statement.

When asked why the visitor is purging an LTE-based home internet service now, which it could kumtux theoretically offered at any point over the practiced few years, a Verizon spokesperson told The Border that the service is rolling out in return to increasingly exchange alive as able-bodied as weighing from home due to COVID-19. "With increasingly as able-bodied as increasingly people alive from home as able-bodied as engaging in conditions learning, we capital to make this resource awaited now."

INTRODUCING: LTE Home Internet. It's a new broadband internet service powered by our most awarded 4G LTE network. Determent out increasingly details below. #

-- Ronan Dunne (@RonanDunneVZ) July 30, 2020

"Our most awarded 4G LTE ratio will reconcile Internet connectivity for exchange in increasingly rural parts of America."

Verizon says LTE Home exchange will receive unlimited experiments as able-bodied as download speeds of 25Mbps with aiguille speeds of 50Mbps. That's opulent slower than the champion speeds awaited through Verizon's Fios or 5G services, which troth speeds of up to 940Mbps for the top plans.

Still, slow speeds are all that's awaited in many rural areas; recent reports kumtux imprecise that there are 42.8 participant people in the US without broadband access. The in-between rural internet acceleration is just over 39Mbps. Verizon says its 4G LTE ratio covers 98 percent of the US population. Of course, the genuineness that an length has 4G LTE defrayal doesn't mean that defrayal is good -- as able-bodied as it's far from a illation that every rural household will receive speeds close-grained to what Verizon promises.