Verizon and Samsung Run Fully Virtualized 5G Data Session in C-band Posted on Share Home » Verizon and Samsung Run Fully Virtualized 5G Data Session in C-band Verizon and Samsung have conducted an end-to-end fully virtualized 5G data session over C-band spectrum over a live network, according to the carrier. The demonstration anticipates the carrier’s use of C-band spectrum it recently acquired. Virtualization decouples the hardware and software layers of a network device. It greatly enhances the flexibility and improves the economics in providing the bandwidth, latency and other attributes requested by users. This is especially important as network elements are decentralized.