AT&T says 5G will be priced like home Internet—pay more for faster speeds

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson. (credit: AT&T)
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson today said that 5G will likely be priced similarly to wireline Internet, with customers paying more for faster speeds.
With 5G, 'I will be very surprised if... the pricing regime in wireless doesn't look something like the pricing regime you see in fixed line,' Stephenson said during an earnings call today. (See transcript.)
Some customers 'are willing to pay a premium for 500Mbps to 1Gbps speed and so forth,' Stephenson continued. 'And so I expect that to be the case. We're two or three years away from seeing that play out.'
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