{"id":48383,"date":"2026-10-13T09:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=48383"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:01:09","slug":"study-compares-uk-5g-fixed-wireless-broadband-performance-to-starlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/10\/study-compares-uk-5g-fixed-wireless-broadband-performance-to-starlink.html","title":{"rendered":"Study compares UK 5G fixed wireless broadband performance to Starlink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/opensignal\" target=\"_blank\">Opensignal<\/a> has compared the performance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> powered Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) broadband to that of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/starlink\" target=\"_blank\">Starlink<\/a>&#8217;s LEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/satellite\">satellite<\/a> network across 14 European markets, including the United Kingdom. In the UK, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/starlink\" target=\"_blank\">Starlink<\/a> comes out top for rural broadband, but it&#8217;s a much more mixed picture in urban areas, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a> is strongest for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> FWA.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insights.opensignal.com\/2026\/10\/fwa-vs-starlink-in-europe-how-consistency-and-speed-shape-rural-broadband-choices\/dt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The study<\/strong><\/a>, which is based on crowdsourced data collected via users of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/opensignal\" target=\"_blank\">Opensignal<\/a>&#8217;s App, focused on two key measures &#8211; <strong>Download Speed<\/strong> and <strong>Consistent Quality<\/strong> (CQ) &#8211; to capture different sides of the experience. &#8220;<em>Speed shows the network capacity of the service, while Consistent Quality shows how often it is good enough during everyday use<\/em>,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/opensignal\" target=\"_blank\">Opensignal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Opensignal&#8217;s study only looked at FWA via mobile networks, such as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafone5gbroadband\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Vodafone 5G Broadband<\/a> <\/strong>and <a class=\"noshortlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threembb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener sponsored\"><strong>Three 5G Home Broadband<\/strong><\/a> in the UK (plus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a>&#8217;s solution). But this excludes the many dedicated but smaller FWA networks that use different wireless bands and technologies, so take this study with a pinch of salt as some of those other networks can deliver gigabit speeds.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/starlink\" target=\"_blank\">Starlink<\/a> ultimately came out as the fastest rural broadband option in all 14 markets analysed &#8211; users on Starlink measure twice the speed (<strong>82Mbps<\/strong>) of the average FWA provider. In half of these markets, Starlink also matches or beats urban FWA speeds, where mobile operators normally have good coverage and plenty of spectrum. The leading FWA providers do, however, outperform Starlink on Consistent Quality throughout urban and rural areas of most markets.<\/p>\n<p>Part of that speed gap stems from commercial reality. For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a>&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> based home broadband service caps the max speed of their plans to 50Mbps and 150Mbps. Starlink&#8217;s plans also cap their speeds, but there&#8217;s greater performance at the entry-level (100Mbps on their first residential plan). On the flip side, Starlink&#8217;s prices start at \u00a340 per month, whereas <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> sell 5G home broadband from \u00a318 a month.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>A closer look at the UK&#8217;s results<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The study found that the fastest urban FWA provider in the UK was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a> on a download speed of 81.2Mbps. The same operator also came top for FWA providers in rural areas, albeit with a much slower speed of 32.4Mbps, due to the limitations of rural spectrum and network density etc. By comparison, Starlink&#8217;s speed in both urban and rural areas was 80.8Mbps, which is on par with FWA in urban areas, but significantly faster in rural locations.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the CQ scores, Three UK came top in urban areas with a score of 68.8%, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> were strongest for FWA in rural areas with a score of 62.1%. By comparison, Starlink delivered urban and rural CQ score of 68.1%, which is on par with FWA for urban areas and much better than FWA in rural areas, which is of course Starlink&#8217;s primary focus.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" style=\"padding: 0px; width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2026-uk-internet-statistics\/Opensignal-UK-5G-FWA-vs-Starlink-Broadband-Speeds.webp\" alt=\"Opensignal-UK-5G-FWA-vs-Starlink-Broadband-Speeds\"><\/p>\n<p>The study concludes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a>\/5G based FWA is unlikely to be able to compete with Starlink&#8217;s rural speed advantage in the near term. Rural FWA speeds are limited by the number of mobile sites in an area and the spectrum available, both of which take years of investment to expand. In the UK and Poland, FWA&#8217;s rural experience was found to be significantly weaker than Starlink\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Take note that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> is excluded above as they don&#8217;t have an FWA style home broadband plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study from Opensignal has compared the performance of 5G and 4G powered Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) broadband to that of Starlink&#8217;s LEO satellite network across 14 European markets, including the United Kingdom. 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