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Mobile operator O2<\/a> (VMO2) has today furnished us with a brief progress update on the 4G<\/a> and 5G<\/a> network upgrades they’ve been making across rural postcodes over the past year. Some of these have been focused on ensuring that their network is ready to cope with a surge in traffic over the peak Christmas shopping period.<\/p>\n

Over the past year, the operator says they’ve deployed their “high-speed<\/em>” 5G<\/a> (mobile broadband) network to more than 30,000 rural areas and have also improved its 4G<\/a> network to boost capacity in more than 34,245 postcodes across the countryside.<\/p>\n

The upgrades come as economic modelling from Cebr for VMO2 claims to show that improving rural connectivity could add an extra \u00a316.3bn to the UK economy and create 108,000 new jobs, although such forecasts should always be taken with a big pinch of salt.<\/p>\n

The update comes on the same day that Ofcom<\/a>’s Connection Nations 2023 report revealed (here<\/a>) how O2<\/a>’s geographic 4G<\/a> coverage in rural areas had held fairly static at around 80% during the year, while their 5G<\/a> coverage of rural areas currently sits at around 37-41%. By comparison, front-runner EE<\/a> delivered 86% for 4G and 56-65% for 5G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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