Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam made similar statements during an investor call in July. "About half of our cost to deploy FiOS is in the home today and the next biggest thing outside the home is the drop," McAdam said. Verizon can cut costs substantially by "losing the wiring in the house and losing the drop," he said. To that end, Verizon is planning to test a wireless video service for homes. Based on the not-yet-finished 5G standard, the service will be in several small towns by the end of March, and it will be free to the homes in the beta testing areas while Verizon evaluates the technology to prepare a wider rollout, McAdam said at an investor conference this week, according to an article in Fortune. This is separate from the Boston fiber deployment. "We won't be charging for the service [at first], but we will be learning from it and figuring out the distance between the transmitter and the receiver in a 5G environment," McAdam said.