Verizon includes Apple TV 4K in residential 5G rollout plans
Verizon on Tuesday announced it will be including an Apple TV 4K or a YouTube TV subscription with upcoming residential 5G services in an effort to bolster adoption the burgeoning product.

As part of Verizon's offer, customers who sign up for the upcoming service are eligible to receive an Apple TV 4K box or a subscription to YouTube TV as part of the deal. While Verizon does not specify terms and conditions,The Verge reports users will have to choose between Apple's hardware or Google's streaming product.
"Apple TV 4K delivers a stunning cinematic experience at home with support for both 4K and High Dynamic Range (HDR), featuring unbelievably sharp, crisp images, richer, more true-to-life colors, and far greater detail in both dark and bright scenes. Apple TV 4K has been a hit since its debut last fall, offering customers an unmatched selection of 4K HDR movies and TV shows from iTunes, Netflix, and Prime Video," Verizon said in its press release.
Of the big four wireless companies in the U.S., Verizon is angling to be the first to roll out 5G residential broadband, with installations set to begin in the four launch cities later this year. The telco plans to add the speedy tech to its mobile subscription offerings in the first half of 2019.
Verizon on Tuesday also announced a fourth launch market in Indianapolis, which joins previously identified launch cities Houston, Los Angeles and Sacramento.
Today's announcement comes on the heals of another Verizon and Apple promotion. Last week, the company began offering six months of free Apple Music to any customer with an unlimited data plan, regardless if they are a new, existing, or lapsed Apple Music subscriber.

As part of Verizon's offer, customers who sign up for the upcoming service are eligible to receive an Apple TV 4K box or a subscription to YouTube TV as part of the deal. While Verizon does not specify terms and conditions,The Verge reports users will have to choose between Apple's hardware or Google's streaming product.
"Apple TV 4K delivers a stunning cinematic experience at home with support for both 4K and High Dynamic Range (HDR), featuring unbelievably sharp, crisp images, richer, more true-to-life colors, and far greater detail in both dark and bright scenes. Apple TV 4K has been a hit since its debut last fall, offering customers an unmatched selection of 4K HDR movies and TV shows from iTunes, Netflix, and Prime Video," Verizon said in its press release.
Of the big four wireless companies in the U.S., Verizon is angling to be the first to roll out 5G residential broadband, with installations set to begin in the four launch cities later this year. The telco plans to add the speedy tech to its mobile subscription offerings in the first half of 2019.
Verizon on Tuesday also announced a fourth launch market in Indianapolis, which joins previously identified launch cities Houston, Los Angeles and Sacramento.
Today's announcement comes on the heals of another Verizon and Apple promotion. Last week, the company began offering six months of free Apple Music to any customer with an unlimited data plan, regardless if they are a new, existing, or lapsed Apple Music subscriber.
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So do not hold your breath.
The company announced today it had switched on 5G technology across selected areas of the Gold Coast, making it one of the first in the world to do so.
Telstra CEO Andy Penn said the company plans to have more than 200 5G-capable sites up and running around the country by the end of 2018.
It is sometimes better to be late to the game, but with a solution that is better thought out than everyone who has gone before. 2019 in this case sounds like a reasonable release date for 5G on iPhone.
We will see soon enough.
I'm pretty much a cord-cutter, but it's not because the quality of programming is all that better, or the quality of the stream itself is better than wired cable (it's not) or that I'm really even saving any money to speak of. So then why am I still committed to keeping the cord cut? I'm not sure and my wife is getting closer to convincing me to fuggedaboudit .
For $100 a month I'd get basic cable plus HBO plus 150GB internet. Paying just shy of $60 now for internet alone. I'd still have a buncha free Roku channels and YouTube. Add in Netflix and it sure does seem like a sensical plan.
yeah, but the regulators do not care now they are onto other things and very few people use copper for phones. VZ is very good to point out the squirrel to the regulator dogs to chase.