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Mobile operator O2<\/a> (Virgin Media<\/a>) has this morning announced that they\u2019ve switched-on their next-generation 5G<\/a> Standalone (5G<\/a>+) mobile broadband network in the Cumbria area, which is said to reach up to 219,000 people in Carlisle, Barrow-in-Furness, Workington and Ulverston etc. \u2013 delivering \u201cfaster speeds, better coverage and lower latency at no extra cost<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

O2<\/a>\u2019s rollout of 5G<\/a>+ first began in February 2024 (here<\/a>) and aims to reach \u201cat least 90% outdoor coverage<\/em>\u201d in every location they cover. The operator\u2019s latest deployment in Cumbria is said to benefit communities from Carlisle and West Cumbria to the Furness coast and the county\u2019s market towns (some of this went live a little while ago and is only now being confirmed).<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> The upgrade forms part of O2<\/a>\u2019s wider \u00a3700m Mobile Transformation Plan for 2026.<\/div>\n

The new 5G+ network is currently live across over 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 4G<\/a> infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The full list of locations (towns and cities) in Cumbria able to access it include Carlisle, Barrow-in-Furness, Workington, Ulverston, Walney, Millom, Keswick, Seaton, Askam-in-Furness, Appleby, Arnside, Milnthorpe, Sedbergh and Longtown.<\/p>\n

The new network is typically available to O2\u2019s customers with compatible devices, although we still wish that mobile network operators would supply geographic coverage figures for their 5G+ network too. Population figures always sound good, but the reality is often very patchy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has this morning announced that they\u2019ve switched-on their next-generation 5G Standalone (5G+) mobile broadband network in the Cumbria area, which is said to reach up to 219,000 people in Carlisle, Barrow-in-Furness, Workington and Ulverston etc. \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":[406,444,60,32,475],"class_list":["post-48485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-5g","tag-cumbria","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-o2","tag-virgin-media"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/117477930991229272","error":""},"yoast_head":"\nO2 UK extends 5G standalone mobile broadband network to Cumbria - 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