In reply to a post by dect:

Its still valid even if its a day late and a dollar short

I think we disagree on "badly" too. Perhaps its been over marketed before the network was built, and there is the impact of the Govt decision to remove Huawei hardware.

Sorry I realised I said sold rather than licensed and should have corrected it.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

I think we disagree on "badly" too.

I'm not going to split hairs

My only experience of 5G is around Camberley town centre, and coverage is very , even with the shopping precincts.

Is very what?

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

My only experience of 5G is around Camberley town centre

EE has coverage in Camberley and Aldershot, but I think both towns have only 1 or 2 sites per town. Three has two or three sites in Aldershot activated, and Farnborough has 2 Three sites, O2 has nothing.

None of them compete with the number of 4G/3G/2G sites.

Some data today from opensignal (from their app on millions of phones) show that 5G isn't a con...
if you can get a 5G signal is another matter.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023/03/the-fa...

Edited by jchamier (Thu 16-Mar-23 18:42:24)

Looks like the Government is pushing for standalone 5G by 2030, hopefully we will see the true capability of 5G speeds. Latency and battery hopefully improves also.

In reply to a post by safwanm:

Looks like the Government is pushing for standalone 5G by 2030, hopefully we will see the true capability of 5G speeds. Latency and battery hopefully improves also.

More likely it will longer than 2030. Far too slow to catch up. By the time 6G will be rolled out by 2040! Useless SLOW UK

In reply to a post by safwanm:

Looks like the Government is pushing for standalone 5G by 2030, hopefully we will see the true capability of 5G speeds. Latency and battery hopefully improves also.

Nicely late Govt target. I suspect we might see some Standalone Architecture 5G in cities in the UK in the next 2 years (so by 2025). I can't see all the current 4G coverage having a 5G layer until 2030, but in many rural areas there won't be much difference.

Some comment today from EE on Linked In:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/howardwatson_the-uk-g...

Edited by jchamier (Tue 11-Apr-23 19:01:13)

In reply to a post by safwanm:

Looks like the Government is pushing for standalone 5G by 2030, hopefully we will see the true capability of 5G speeds. Latency and battery hopefully improves also.

It needs to be more reliable, going by people I know that have 5G phones, around here is no great and people I know that live in large cities like Birmingham., they complain that they lose signal if they go between buildings.

the problem is getting masts built, we have had some refused permission around here