If you’re not in a 5G coverage area, then you’ll be using 4G. Vodafone has around 99% UK population coverage with 4G, and that puts it roughly in line with rivals. Below you’ll find a 4G coverage ...

While Smarty offers widespread and rapidly growing 5G coverage, there are still many places that don’t have 5G, and in these locations you’ll be reliant on 4G. Thankfully, you should be even better ...

As well as 5G coverage, Lebara also offers widespread 4G coverage, which you’ll be able to access in places that don’t yet have 5G. Below you can see an indication of how much 4G coverage Lebara has, ...

In places where there’s no 5G, you’ll be using 4G, and iD Mobile has no shortage of coverage for those things, due to its partnership with Three. As you can see in the chart below, it has roughly 99.8 ...

Not long ago we reported that EE’s 5G Standalone service – now dubbed ‘5G+’ – would soon reach over half the UK’s population, and now EE has achieved that milestone, with its 5G Standalone service now ...

Three tends to do very well in 5G speeds tests, and the latest results are no exception, with Ookla having put out its testing results for the second half of 2025, which show Three in the lead across ...

There’s good news for residents and visitors to Gloucester, because O2 has now switched on its 5G Standalone service in the city – which should benefit the roughly 138,000 people who live there, along ...

EE has announced an ambitious plan to deliver 5G coverage across 90% of the UK’s landmass by 2028. That would make for greater geographic coverage than 4G or 3G currently offer on any network, so ...

Technology consultancy firm Cambridge Consultants has announced an ambitious collaboration with UK startup Stratospheric Platforms Limited to create an airborne wireless 5G antenna system. Following a ...

O2’s 5G network could soon get a big boost, as the company has acquired 78.8MHz of spectrum from Vodafone – so in other words O2 now has more spectrum than it did before, and Vodafone has less.

While many networks offer plans with parental controls, few design their plans specifically with kids in mind – there’s ParentShield, but nothing of the sort from big-name networks. That’s about to ...

5G Standalone (5G SA) is the next step for 5G – right now, most of the UK uses 5G Non-Standalone (5G NSA), which means it still has some 4G components, while with 5G SA, the infrastructure is all ...