For most users, 5G is unneeded; especially with the not so large increase in delivered bandwidth to the phone. Line of sight applications is where it will shine, past that it will not deliver much more than 4g and at an increased cost to the consumer.
But the market loves hype as does a company that wallers in debt and service payments for that debt.
With the Sprint/T-Mobile merger underway it will be interesting to see just how low Verizon will have to price their product in order to keep customers. People do not need the best network to be anywhere but where they live and the Sprint/T-Mobile merger will bring that awareness to many Verizon customers.
When a company has to cut employees, divisions, services to continue to pay a larger than necessary dividend....then that company is in serious trouble. Debt is great when one wants to avoid a hostile takeover but is bad when one has aggressive competition.
This was taken from @ZbRzwTo-1yuo