Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg claims the pandemic crisis has not significantly slowed his firm’s 5G roll-out, nor has it put its millimeter wave fixed wireless network under strain. Expanding on Verizon’s somewhat ambiguous plans to move from FWA to full 5G coverage and mobility Vestberg said that, despite the disruptions of the Covid-19 lockdowns, the operator would deploy more than five times more 5G base stations in 2020 than in 2019. The rise in home broadband usage as a result of lockdowns will certainly prove a test of Verizon’s past claims that 5G mmWave technology could match that of wireline solutiosn. “It has not changed how we think about doing 5G Home and fixed wireless access. It has only reinforced…