I want to thank you and the whole Apple team for a fantastic collaboration leading up to this
historic moment. Until now, most people have taken a "wait and see" approach to 5G. They've been
waiting for 5G to get real... With the network coverage they expect, the incredible performance
they have been promised, and the devices they love. Well, today with iPhone, the wait is over.
5G just got real. Of course, what's the most exciting part for me as a guy who has worked in
networking for 25-plus years? That fact that for the first time ever, iPhone can now access
Verizon's 5G Ultra Wideband. It's built with large quantities of mmWave spectrum that enable
unprecedented performance. 5G Ultra Wideband has already been recognized as being the fastest
5G in the world. And it's getting even faster. Our 5G network now gives you double the peak
download speeds: over 4 gigabits per second today in ideal conditions and even higher over time.
And double the upload speeds at over 200 megabits per second. So whenever you're watching a
high-definition movie or you're planning business workflows with real-time augmented reality,
you can be sure that there's no faster 5G anywhere on earth. 5G Ultra Wideband has, also, a
massive capacity. We're building it to help remove bottlenecks in crowded places where thousands of
people use their phones at the same time. Because one day we'll be safely back in those places.
And so, we're nearly doubling our 5G-enabled stadiums, venues, airports, train stations, and
lighting up some of the busiest locations in the country. This enables amazing things, like
reinventing the in-stadium fan experience with our NFL partners. The new Verizon 5G SuperStadium
experience in the NFL app lets fans see and feel the action from up to seven camera angles,
including views from players' eyes, and an immersive augmented reality like never before. We're
excited for NFL to be rolling this out to many stadiums through the course of the season.
And finally, 5G Ultra WideBand provides you with super low latency, so experiences like multiplayer
gaming feel like they're happening in near real time, freed from the confines of your home.
Together with Apple, Verizon has partnered with one of the world's leading gaming companies
for some exciting news that you'll hear about later today. To make this incredible experience
available to more people, we're doubling down on our fastest network, the 5G Ultra Wideband,
with double the coverage in existing cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and expanding
into new cities like Philadelphia and San Francisco, with 60 cities by year-end. In addition to
our 5G Ultra Wideband network, we have an extensive 5G network. And today, we're excited to announce
that Verizon is turning on our 5G Nationwide network, reaching more than 200 million people across
more than 1,800 cities and towns. So, all of the pieces have now come together: the coverage of 5G
Nationwide, the unprecedented performance of 5G Ultra Wideband in more and more cities, the
reliability you expect from Verizon. With the first 5G iPhone on the 5G America has been
waiting for, we can finally say, 5G just got real.
Hans, this is definitely the start of something big. Thank you for joining us, and thank you for all
the great work we're doing together. We are very excited about 5G on iPhone, and we're going to
introduce 5G across our entire lineup of new iPhone models today. So now I'd like to show you
the very first iPhone with 5G. Introducing iPhone 12. To tell you all about it, I'd like to hand it
over to Kaiann.