O2 UK Complete 4G and 5G Upgrades for 3500 Postcodes in Liverpool
Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today announced that they’ve completed a project to upgrade the capacity of their 4G and 5G mobile services across “over” 3,500 postcodes in the Merseyside city of Liverpool (England), which should mean “faster” mobile broadband speeds and greater reliability.
The work, which the operator said began at the “beginning of the year“, forms part of O2’s ongoing effort to invest around £700m this year into their mobile network, which enables them to deploy new technologies and keep up with increasing customer demand. All mobile operators have to conduct similar work. This comes against a backdrop of rising demand, with the amount of mobile data traffic more than doubling over the past 5 years, and the need to withdraw their old 3G network.
Dr Robert Joyce, O2’s Director of Mobile Access Engineering, said: “With customers using more data than ever before, the improvements we’ve made at over 3,500 postcodes in Liverpool will ensure local people and businesses can access reliable connectivity that is so essential in powering our customers’ digital lifestyles. As part of our Mobile Transformation Plan, we are continuing to invest in our network with future upgrades planned to ensure that we can continue to support our customers both now and in future.”
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Here come EE fanboys to tell us why this is a bad thing. How’s that indoor coverage going?
That obsession with EE isn’t healthy, Gigabit.
Absolutely fine, good amount of band 20 out there now. In fact at my address EE’s band 20 is faster indoors than my other half who’s on O2 at any time of day. Both masts are in the same site.
Indoor EE 5g service is currently at 75Gbps. This service was sufficient to run video streaming over a tether onto my iPhone for my home network when my landline broadband was down in August of last year.
90% 4G – SA 5G hasn’t & isn’t happening.
5G SA has started. The numbers and locations have already been published. The work is ongoing and progressing with the new service providing significant improvements in continuity, bandwidth and latency.