5G | The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2026-06-29T21:06:14+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/5g/index.xml https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Allison Johnson <![CDATA[T-Mobile is booting customers from its oldest plans]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=959144 2026-06-29T17:06:14-04:00 2026-06-29T17:06:14-04:00 An illustration of the T-Mobile logo on a purple and black background
Time to say goodbye to that legacy Sprint plan. | Image: Alex Castro / The Verge

Earlier today, T-Mobile started notifying customers that it will be retiring many legacy plans and moving subscribers onto one of its current rate plans. This move includes plans that date back to the 3G era, and it's going about as well as you'd expect.

Affected customers began sharing screenshots of the text on reddit and Threads this morning, and T-Mobile's chief marketing officer Allan Samson confirmed the news to The Verge:

We're retiring our oldest plans, some of which were built nearly 15 years ago - in the 3G and 4G eras, and well before our 5G network was fully deployed. Customers will transition to modern plans that provide acc …

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]]> Allison Johnson <![CDATA[Oh great, here comes 6G]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=886558 2026-03-10T15:16:10-04:00 2026-03-02T06:30:00-05:00 Illustration showing 6G in bold lettering.
It’s like 5G, but one more. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images

It brings me no pleasure to say this, but friends: The next G cometh.

The standard formally known as 6G is still being established, but it's going to be a major topic of discussion at Mobile World Congress 2026, which gets started today in Barcelona.

5G arrived back in 2019, but also, did it, entirely? You may have noticed a distinct lack of the robot surgeons and streets dominated by autonomous vehicles that standard was supposed to enable in your daily life. Like the Gs that arrived before, 5G continues to evolve through new "releases" every few years - a case of incremental progress that couldn't possibly live up to all that hype. Tha …

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]]> Allison Johnson <![CDATA[A presidential refresher on wireless terminology, courtesy of Trump Mobile]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=842937 2025-12-13T13:20:11-05:00 2025-12-12T09:00:00-05:00
Next-gen wireless technology for dummies.

Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump Phone's whereabouts. As usual, we're still waiting for a response. In the meantime, we're publishing a little reminder of some wireless tech terms. You know, in case you forgot.

6G? 4K? 3D? Whether you're a layperson or the leader of one of the most powerful countries in the world, it can be hard keeping a lot of numbers and letters in your head. Not that I'm pointing a finger; surely anyone can forget what a silly little combination of numbers and letters means! Especially if you have things like nuclear codes takin …

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]]> Sean Hollister <![CDATA[Donald Trump reminds the entire world he has no idea what 6G means]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=842087 2025-12-12T12:02:30-05:00 2025-12-10T18:37:26-05:00

When business leaders spout buzzwords like "AI," "8K" and "5G," sometimes in the same sentence, we often get a sneaking suspicion they don't know what they mean! With President Donald Trump, there's no need to wonder: he clearly has no idea. "What does [6G] do? Give you a little bit deeper view into somebody's skin?" he mused today, live on TV, right in front of Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, who did not bother to correct him.

Trump: So we're into 6G now. Yeesh. I was a leader on 5G, getting that done. What does that do? Give you a little bit deeper view into somebody's skin? I like the cameras of the old days.

- FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky. …

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]]> Allison Johnson <![CDATA[All the places I used my Trump Mobile wireless service this week]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=829414 2025-12-12T11:19:09-05:00 2025-11-29T06:00:00-05:00
Hey, I got my SIM card.

Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump Phone's whereabouts. As usual, we're still waiting for a response. In the meantime, we're testing the service on Trump Mobile's MVNO. Here's how that went.

As I sat down at the bookstore cafe with a cortado and an oat bar, I panicked just a little bit when I turned on my phone's hotspot. What if my hotspot network gave me away? Would it say ALLISON'S TRUMP PHONE? Would someone smart sitting next to me, sipping matcha, catch sight of it? What would they think of me?

That's not what happened, of course. The default ne …

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]]> Allison Johnson <![CDATA[I signed up for Trump Mobile two weeks ago and I still don’t have my SIM]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=825190 2025-12-12T11:19:54-05:00 2025-11-21T09:00:00-05:00
Dude, where’s my card?

Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. While we wait, we tried to order a Trump Mobile SIM card so we can test the service on a different device. Here's how that went.

Signing up for Trump Mobile's wireless service felt a little like engaging in espionage.

Let's say I don't fully trust the Trump Organization to be great stewards of my credit card information, so I used a virtual number provided by my bank. Once I'd handed over the virtual money, I got this message: "Thank you for your order of a Physical SIM, we'll ship next business day via First Class USPS mail, no separate tracking number will be sent …

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]]> Terrence O’Brien <![CDATA[Mint Mobile’s prepaid home internet plan is really cheap under very specific circumstances]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=800055 2025-10-16T04:32:12-04:00 2025-10-15T12:27:55-04:00
Minternet is an unforgivable portmanteau.

Mint Mobile is trying something a bit less "mobile" with its new prepaid 5G home internet plan that goes for as little as $30 a month. To get that price, you will need to also have a Mint phone plan and pay for at least three months up front. But it's still one of the cheapest 5G at home plans out there even if you can't lock in the lowest price.

5G Home Minternet (yes, that is what they're calling it) delivers the same speeds - typically between 133-415 Mbps down - and unlimited data as T-Mobile's 5G home internet, which is unsurprising seeing as how they run on the same network. The difference is that throttling during periods of network …

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]]> Emma Roth <![CDATA[Verizon buys the not-quite-5G wireless ISP Starry to expand wireless broadband]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=796693 2025-10-08T13:29:13-04:00 2025-10-08T13:21:14-04:00

Verizon is acquiring Starry, the ISP that delivers home internet using antennas and millimeter wave technology. The acquisition "advances" Verizon's ability to offer high-speed internet in apartments, condominiums, and other multi-dwelling units, the company said on Wednesday.

Starry made its debut in Boston in 2016, offering gigabit speeds via its unconventional approach to internet connectivity. Instead of carrying connectivity across a web of wires - which are expensive and time-consuming to deploy - Starry beams its internet service from a larger antenna into homes via high-speed, short-range mmWave broadcasts. The challenge with those …

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]]> Mia Sato <![CDATA[MLB will use robot umpires beginning next season]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=783982 2025-09-23T16:58:11-04:00 2025-09-23T16:58:11-04:00 Baseball player swinging a bat.

Major League Baseball will use so-called robot umpires at home plate beginning in 2026, the league announced today. The system has been tested in minor league games (as explained in this video, included below), spring training, and events like the 2025 All-Star Game.

The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) is seen as a fairer, more accurate way to call when a pitch is a ball or a strike, which currently is done by the home plate human umpire. A pitch is a ball when it's thrown outside the strike zone and a strike when it's within the zone, but home plate umps are frequently the target of ire when they make bad calls. The strike zone varies f …

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]]> Terrence O’Brien <![CDATA[Eero’s Signal is a cellular safety net for your Wi-Fi network]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=772645 2025-09-05T12:44:17-04:00 2025-09-05T11:24:09-04:00

The new Eero Signal could have saved me a lot of headaches when I was dealing with regular internet outages at my home last year. See, Signal automatically detects when your internet goes down and switches your whole Wi-Fi network over to a cellular connection to minimize disruption. Sure, when I'd suddenly see a "Slack is trying to connect" message, I could pull out my phone and hop on the hotspot, but that only brought my laptop back online. My TVs, the computer in my studio, my kid's iPad, these all stayed connected to the now useless router.

The Eero Signal comes in two versions: a 4G LTE model for $99.99 and a 5G RedCap one for $199.9 …

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