{"id":29624,"date":"2021-12-17T10:38:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T10:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=29624"},"modified":"2021-12-17T10:38:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T10:38:34","slug":"virgin-media-o2-update-on-rural-uk-4g-and-5g-progress-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/12\/virgin-media-o2-update-on-rural-uk-4g-and-5g-progress-in-2021.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media O2 Update on Rural UK 4G and 5G Progress in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> (VMO2) has today informed us that they&#8217;ve upgraded 2,876 locations in small towns and hamlets with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> this year, and increased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> network capacity in 178,500 postcodes across the UK. The network provider has also rolled out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> in a total of 53 smaller towns and hamlets, in addition to urban areas.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some of this expansion will reflect commercial coverage, but other parts probably flow from the joint \u00a31bn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/03\/operators-sign-1bn-deal-for-95-geographic-uk-4g-cover-by-2026.html\">Shared Rural Network<\/a> (SRN) industry project with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>), which aims to push geographic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> coverage to 95% from any one operator by the end of 2025 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/10\/government-in-1bn-deal-for-95-geographic-uk-4g-mobile-by-2025.html\">here<\/a>); or 84% for all operators (i.e. geographic areas where you&#8217;ll be able to take 4G from all four operators).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> this week reported (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/12\/connected-nations-2021-uk-gigabit-broadband-cover-hits-47.html\">here<\/a>) that between 79% to 86% of the UK\u2019s landmass can access a 4G network if you look across all operators (up slightly from 79% to 85% last year), with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> seeing geographic 4G coverage of 98% in urban areas and just 72% in rural ones. Sadly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a>&#8217;s rural coverage was less than that of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> (81%), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> (76%) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a> (75%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile operator O2 (VMO2) has today informed us that they&#8217;ve upgraded 2,876 locations in small towns and hamlets with 4G this year, and increased 4G network capacity in 178,500 postcodes across the UK. The network provider has also rolled out 5G in a total of 53 smaller towns and hamlets, in addition to urban areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,406,32,475],"class_list":["post-29624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-4g","tag-5g","tag-o2","tag-virgin-media"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Virgin Media O2 Update on Rural UK 4G and 5G Progress in 2021 - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mobile operator O2 (VMO2) has today informed us that they&#039;ve upgraded 2,876 locations in small towns and hamlets with 4G this year, and increased 4G\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/12\/virgin-media-o2-update-on-rural-uk-4g-and-5g-progress-in-2021.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Virgin Media O2 Update on Rural UK 4G and 5G Progress in 2021 - 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