{"id":34437,"date":"2023-05-12T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T23:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=34437"},"modified":"2023-05-12T07:22:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T06:22:01","slug":"west-midlands-named-best-connected-uk-region-for-5g-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/05\/west-midlands-named-best-connected-uk-region-for-5g-cover.html","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands Named Best Connected UK Region for 5G Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from telecoms analyst firm Umlaut, which analysed geographic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> mobile coverage across the UK&#8217;s Combined Authority areas, has identified the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmca.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Combined Authority<\/a> (WMCA) region as being the best connected in the UK, with 65% of locations having access from at least one operator.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The figure for the West Midlands also represents a significant improvement from the 22% recorded back in December 2021. The next closest region was Greater Manchester, which scored 53% in April 2023 and that&#8217;s up from 18% in December 2021. But such improvements should hardly come as a big surprise, since both regions are much more urban centric and have been a strong focus for <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>), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> (VMO2), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> The release doesn&#8217;t say how Umlaut reached this result, but in the past they&#8217;ve used a mix of scientific walk\/drive tests and crowdsourced data collected from masses of app using mobile phone users.<\/div>\n<p>The news follows last month&#8217;s development, which saw <strong>Birmingham City Council<\/strong> (BCC) sign one of the first <strong>Open Access Agreements<\/strong> (OAA) with telecoms infrastructure providers, which will enable them to use council lampposts to host so-called &#8220;<em>small cells<\/em>&#8220;. 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