While everyone is patting Verizon on the back at launching the world’s first 5G network this week, it is probably worth pointing out that if this bid for fixed broadband does not work, that Verizon is in a hell of a tight spot. And by the way, it is unlikely to work. Verizon’s 5G turns out to be a pre-standard (read non-standard and expensive) millimeter wave fixed wireless. The business model is out of the ark – same as Clearwire – and the only thing that has changed are the speeds and the fact that the spectrum was not that expensive, but more expensive than Clearwire’s – it now talks about 1 Gbps performance (Clearwire 10 years ago was 4…