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Verizon Launches First 5G Hot Spot, Adds St. Paul as 5th US 5G Coverage Area

Verizon's fifth 5G-enabled device is an Inseego MiFi M1000 hot spot ($649), launched nationally Thursday, though the carrier’s service is available in just five markets. It added St. Paul to its 5G mobility cities list Thursday, joining Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis…

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and Providence, Rhode Island. The Inseego device is “business-ready,” said Verizon, providing roomy bandwidth and fast download speeds for applications including 4K and 8K video streaming, virtual reality and augmented reality, plus mobile workforce and industrial IoT. In St. Paul, Verizon 5G ultra-wideband service is available in parts of the downtown, Lowertown and West Seventh neighborhoods, said the carrier. When customers move outside of 5G coverage range, devices automatically hand the signal to Verizon’s 4G LTE network, it said.