5G Technology Begins to Expand Beyond Smartphones

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Among the first uses: laptops, drones and Wi-Fi for superyachts

ByMeghan Bobrowsky

The deployment of superfast 5G networks is supposed to usher in a new era for so much more than the smartphone—everything from enhanced virtual-reality videogames to remote heart surgery. That vision has been slow to come into focus, but a first wave of 5G-enabled gadgets is emerging.

5G Technology Begins to Expand Beyond Smartphones

Among the first uses of 5G to hit the consumer market is the delivery of home broadband internet service for the ultimate cord-cutters: those looking to not just shed their cable-TV bills but abandon Internet access via wires altogether.Samsung Electronics Co. , for instance, has teamed up withVerizon Communications Inc.to offer wireless 5G routers that promise to deliver at-home broadband access. The router picks up 5G signals just like a smartphone would.

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