Company will use early version of the service as broadband replacement.
AT&T is expected to officially announce that it will begin testing a next-generation 5G wireless network this year, reports Re/code. The telecoms provider will join Verizon, which is already actively working on its 5G network. Though 5G service won’t be offered to smartphone users until the end of this decade, each company—and dozens like them in countries around the world—are in a race to be the first to offer 4G’s successor.
