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Three rollout paused?

dabigm

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Hello

Does anyone know what the status of three's 5G rollout is ? Are they still actively rolling it out?
In my town, three is the only 5G provider but their coverage is limited to one single mast that covers a very small area and is mostly industrial not residential.

I asked three if they were planning to cover any more of the town, or if it was just going to be one spec in an industrial estate, and got back the usual boilerplate/marketing answer that answered nothing.

Anyway, three have been here with 5G for a year now, but nothing has change. Still the one single deployment in the middle of nowhere. Has anyone else noticed this? Are three still actively deploying 5G? or have they given up / can't afford non-huawei kit? What gives? Of course asking three is totally useless.

I also kinda wonder why the other three major networks haven't bothered with us, but three sort of has.
 
Thanks for your reply! Ok that's good. I was worried it had just stalled indefinitely. I hope they and the other networks kick it up a notch. 12 months and no movement left me a bit worried. Almost like it was box ticking exercise, like yep got 5G in your town, on to the next one... even if it's only 1 mast.
 
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I'd expect some of those 'single mast' decisions were driven by marketing wanting to get a headline "we have X number of places with 5G" to appear that they are at least keeping up with the competition (such as EE who started their rollout over a year earlier).

14,000 odd masts will take time to roll things out to and Three's track record is that they go slow (probably because they don't really have the customer volumes/ARPU of the others to spend more quickly). There are also planning permissions, objections, wayleaves etc that can all get in the way and slow progress.
 
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