{"id":40625,"date":"2025-01-20T08:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T08:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=40625"},"modified":"2025-01-21T11:21:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T11:21:03","slug":"uk-still-trails-most-of-eu-with-poor-level-of-5g-mobile-availability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/uk-still-trails-most-of-eu-with-poor-level-of-5g-mobile-availability.html","title":{"rendered":"UK Still Trails Most of EU with Poor Level of 5G Mobile Availability UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New data from Ookla, which operates the popular <a href=\"http:\/\/Speedtest.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Speedtest.net<\/a> internet connection benchmarking service, has revealed that the United Kingdom still places near the bottom of the table in Europe for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> mobile availability (mobile broadband) on a score of just 42.2% (i.e. the percentage of users with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> devices spending most of their time connected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> networks).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>By comparison, the Nordic operators have much to celebrate. In Q4 2024, Nordic countries claimed three of the top five positions in Europe for 5G Availability. Furthermore, all four Nordic countries ranked within the top ten. Denmark retained its position as Europe\u2019s leader, achieving an impressive 5G Availability of 83.4%, narrowly surpassing Switzerland, which remains the only other European country to exceed the 80% milestone to date.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, country-to-country comparisons are notoriously difficult things to get right, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ookla.com\/articles\/nordics-5g-q1-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>new results<\/strong><\/a> are particularly poor for a country like the UK, which was once one of the front-runners in the world for early 5G deployments and performance (at least between 2019 and 2020). Mobile operators often point to the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and supply shortages, but those hit other countries too.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Luke Kehoe, Industry Analyst at Ookla (Europe), said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United Kingdom recorded 5G Availability of 42.2% in Q4 2024, according to Speedtest Intelligence data. This places the UK behind its Western European peers\u2014Ireland (61.9%), France (65.7%), and Germany (63.4%)\u2014in 5G rollout progress and significantly trailing European leaders in the Nordic region, where 5G Availability exceeds 65% across Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s underperformance in 5G Availability highlights deeper structural barriers hindering its rollout progress. This is particularly striking given the UK\u2019s similarly high levels of urbanisation to the Nordics and its relatively less rugged and remote topography compared to countries like Norway\u2014factors that should provide a comparative advantage for 5G network deployment in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The success of the Nordics in achieving high levels of 5G Availability in both rural and urban areas stems in part from robust policy measures aimed at incentivising widespread 5G rollouts, something the UK can learn from. For example, Denmark allowed operators to bid for reductions in their 5G spectrum license fees in exchange for agreeing to coverage commitments in underserved areas, accelerating the deployment of the 700 MHz band, which is critical for widespread coverage deep indoors and in rural areas.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The UK\u2019s situation tends to reflect a combination of issues, such as the previous government\u2019s U-turn to ban Huawei \u2013 this hit about a year after some operators (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a>) had already started their roll-outs. Mobile operators previously warned that the decision, which also impacted existing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> kit due to the close interdependency of their networks, could delay the completion of the 5G rollout by 2-3 years and add costs of up to <strong>\u00a32bn<\/strong> across all operators.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> could have been faster to release 5G friendly spectrum and indeed they still haven&#8217;t begun the auction for a large chunk of millimetre wave (mmW) radio spectrum frequency in the 26GHz and 40GHz bands (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/12\/ofcom-uk-set-timetable-for-5g-mobile-auction-of-26ghz-and-40ghz.html\">here<\/a>). This will be used by mobile operators to deliver faster 5G (mobile broadband) services in dense urban areas and some fixed wireless broadband links.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, the previous Conservative UK government was fairly lacklustre when it came to setting ambitious targets for 5G. Back in 2017 they talked about getting \u201c<em>the majority of the population covered by a 5G signal by 2027<\/em>,\u201d which was a very low bar and most commercial operators hit that between 2022 and 2023. However, before leaving office they did pledge for \u201c<em>all populated areas to be covered by \u2018standalone\u2019 5G (5G-plus) by 2030<\/em>\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/04\/uk-set-ambition-to-deliver-standalone-5g-to-all-populated-areas-by-2030.html\">here<\/a>), while the new Labour government has more generally pledged to &#8220;<em>make a renewed push to fulfil the ambition of full gigabit and national 5G coverage by 2030<\/em>&#8220;. But solid geographic coverage targets have not been set.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, mobile operators are continuing to face plenty of obstacles when building new masts, particularly around the difficulty of securing planning permission in a timely and efficient fashion. But the recent merger between <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\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a> does still aspire to reach more than 99% of the UK population with their 5G Standalone (SA) network by 2034 and push fixed wireless access (mobile home broadband) to 82% of households by 2030, which may also encourage rivals to do something similar.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we&#8217;ll do better when 6G comes along around 2028-2030.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 21st Jan 2025 @ 11:18am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve added a comment from Ookla above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New data from Ookla, which operates the popular Speedtest.net internet connection benchmarking service, has revealed that the United Kingdom still places near the bottom of the table in Europe for 5G mobile availability (mobile broadband) on a score of just 42.2% (i.e. the percentage of users with 5G devices spending most of their time connected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[406,85,60,34],"class_list":["post-40625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-5g","tag-europe","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-statistics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/113859785975397603","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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