Heidi Hemmer wasn’t surprised that Verizon’s millimeter-wave-based 5G network performed well in recent 5G benchmark testing by RootMetrics across five U.S. cities. For the carrier’s vice president of network engineering, the testing was instead an affirmation of Verizon’s strategy to base its first 5G deployments on millimeter wave.
RootMetrics reported that during the December round of testing, it recorded one of its top-three U.S. 5G network speeds to date on Verizon’s network: 780.1 Mbps, which was achieved during a test in Chicago.
