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RootMetrics Reveals 4G Mobile Coverage by Operator in the UK’s Biggest Cities

Thursday, Apr 6th, 2017 (1:08 pm) - Score 1,105

RootMetrics has today published the results from their latest study, which reveals the 4G (LTE) network coverage of the United Kingdom’s four primary mobile operators, across 14 of the biggest cities. Unsurprisingly EE does the best in 13 of the 14 metro areas tested.

The new data makes for a good complement to RootMetrics recent H2 2016 report into the Mobile Broadband performance (speed) of 4G networks across a similar selection of UK cities (here). However we note that the H2 study reported speeds for 16 cities, while today’s coverage study excludes Hull and Newcastle due to a lack of data.

Overall EE provided 4G coverage at rates of 90% or higher in 11 of the 14 markets tested, while bottom dweller Three UK failed to deliver 4G coverage beyond 90% in any of the metro areas tested. Three UK’s highest rate of 4G coverage came in Manchester, at just 81%. By comparison both Vodafone and O2 were broadly delivering much closer coverage to EE’s level, but still between 4-26 percentage points behind.

Market EE 4G% O2 4G% Three 4G% Vodafone 4G% Land mass sampled
Belfast 98.1% 94.6% 75.1% 91.9% 30.6%
Birmingham 98.3% 89.6% 76.3% 89.0% 44.0%
Bristol 92.2% 69.0% 56.7% 68.1% 37.7%
Cardiff 86.5% 60.4% 43.1% 60.4% 42.8%
Coventry 96.1% 87.1% 67.2% 87.4% 33.0%
Edinburgh 89.1% 86.6% 55.0% 88.4% 26.0%
Glasgow 89.4% 77.1% 58.4% 77.2% 22.2%
Leeds and Bradford 90.0% 80.8% 61.0% 82.1% 20.4%
Leicester 95.6% 83.8% 63.2% 82.1% 25.8%
Liverpool 99.8% 94.0% 80.9% 92.9% 68.4%
London 90.7% 77.3% 65.1% 76.5% 30.2%
Manchester 99.0% 94.8% 81.7% 92.6% 46.7%
Nottingham 95.6% 81.2% 72.1% 80.5% 38.0%
Sheffield 96.2% 86.3% 71.4% 85.9% 31.5%
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