Guest columnist Christine Olson: The costs of wireless technology This April 23, 2018, file photo shows the logo for Verizon above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Cellular companies such as Verizon are looking to challenge traditional cable companies with residential internet service that promises to be ultra-fast, affordable and wireless. Using an emerging wireless technology known as 5G, Verizon’s 5G Home service provides an alternative to cable for connecting laptops, phones, TVs and other devices over Wi-Fi. AP Published: 4/13/2021 12:54:51 PM In the past 100 years something that cannot be seen, heard, smelled or touched has multiplied in our environment trillions of times. What is it? Radio waves, which are the basis for all wireless technology.