Wayne Herbert is not happy with his options for home internet access. Comcast jacks up his rates each year, prompting the annual phone call, familiar to many Houstonians, that maybe brings down his payments but always raises his blood pressure. As for competition, the AT&T service at his home in the near-southwest uses an older type of connection with speeds from the internet dark ages. The company’s more modern fiber-optic offering has yet to make it onto his street. “Last summer I was working from home and I saw an AT&T worker on the pole out back rewiring some circuits for my neighbor,” he said. “I went out to ask him about AT&T fiber, and he said he didn’t know why I couldn’t get it. He said it was all around me, but just not on my street.” Hang in there, Wayne. In two years, the means for getting online in Houston will be vastly different thanks to the arrival of 5G. This next generation of internet access for cell phones is projected to be speedy and reliable enough to be sold as home access as well.