India, Aug. 23 -- 5G will be available from Comcast's Xfinity Mobile and Charter's Spectrum Mobile at some point in the future, the companies confirmed to Light Reading.
The cable companies currently offer 4G LTE mobile services through an MVNO agreement with Verizon. The companies said they will also be able to offer 5G via the agreement. However, neither Comcast nor Charter would say when they plan to launch 5G services through their respective mobile brands.
The news is noteworthy for a number of reasons. First, it provides the nation's two biggest cable companies with a competitive response to the wireless industry's gradual but seemingly inexorable move from 4G to 5G. Already companies like Sprint, Verizon and AT&T have been boasting...