Customers in the Garden State may get the chance to try out some of the world's fastest cell phone speeds next year as Verizon begins to test its next stage of wireless technology in three New Jersey towns, reports say.

Verizon recently announced at the Mobile World Conference that Basking Ridge, Bridgewater and Piscataway would be among the five cities in 2016 where the wireless provider will conduct field trials of its 5G network, which clocks in at more than 300 times faster than current cell phone speeds, according to CNET.

The tech publication got a look last week at exactly how the new signal would work as Verizon teamed up with Samsung for an indoor and outdoor speed test of the technology.

The company doesn't expect 5G phones to widely available until 2020, the report says.

In 2017, Verizon will select a few customers to test out the network with commercial-grade devices, CNET reports.

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