{"id":48065,"date":"2026-09-15T14:59:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=48065"},"modified":"2026-09-15T14:59:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:59:47","slug":"o2-uk-switch-on-5g-standalone-mobile-broadband-network-in-tyne-and-wear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/09\/o2-uk-switch-on-5g-standalone-mobile-broadband-network-in-tyne-and-wear.html","title":{"rendered":"O2 UK switch on 5G standalone mobile broadband network in Tyne and Wear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>) has today announced that they\u2019ve switched-on their next-generation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> Standalone (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a>+) mobile broadband network across Newcastle, Tyneside and Sunderland, which is said to reach nearly 1.2 million residents \u2013 delivering \u201c<em>faster speeds, better coverage and lower latency at no extra cost<\/em>.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Just to recap. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a>\u2019s rollout of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a>+ \/ 5GSA first began in February 2024 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/o2-launch-5g-standalone-uk-mobile-network-in-14-uk-cities.html\">here<\/a>) and aims to reach \u201c<em>at least 90% outdoor coverage<\/em>\u201d in every location they cover. The operator\u2019s latest rollout in Newcastle, Tyneside and Sunderland includes locations such as Newcastle city centre and the Quayside to Gateshead, as well as running from Sunderland and Washington to towns including Shiney Row, Hetton-le-Hole and Houghton-le-Spring, as well as smaller communities across the wider area (some of this went live a while little ago and is only now being confirmed).<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> The upgrade forms part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a>\u2019s wider \u00a3700m Mobile Transformation Plan for 2026.<\/div>\n<p>The new 5G+ network is currently live across around 86% of the UK\u2019s population. The technology offers a pure end-to-end 5G network that can deliver ultra-low latency times, greater energy efficiency, better speeds (particularly uploads), network slicing, improved support for IoT devices, increased reliability and security etc. By comparison, early 5G networks used a Non-Standalone (NSA) approach, which was hobbled by being partly reliant upon older and slower <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> infrastructure.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>O2\u2019s 5G+ Locations in Newcastle and Tyneside (890,000 people)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, South Shields, North Shields, Whitley Bay, Jarrow, Whickham, Hebburn, Tynemouth, Blaydon, Birtley and Boldon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>O2\u2019s 5G+ Locations in Sunderland (288,000 people)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sunderland, Washington, Shiney Row, Hetton-le-Hole, Houghton-le-Spring, Ryhope, Rickleton, Fatfield, Newbottle, East Rainton, Hetton Le Hill, Offerton and Burdon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The new network is typically available to O2\u2019s customers with compatible devices, although we do wish that mobile operators would start giving geographic coverage figures for their 5G+ network. Population figures always sound good, but the reality is often very patchy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today announced that they\u2019ve switched-on their next-generation 5G Standalone (5G+) mobile broadband network across Newcastle, Tyneside and Sunderland, which is said to reach nearly 1.2 million residents \u2013 delivering \u201cfaster speeds, better coverage and lower latency at no extra cost.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[406,60,32,457,475],"class_list":["post-48065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-5g","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-o2","tag-tyne-and-wear","tag-virgin-media"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/117275419563282538","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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