The newly created Virgin Media O2 was found to have “pleasing” Everyday 5G speeds, with the provider clocking the fastest Everyday 5G median download speed in Edinburgh at 163.3 Mbps, along with good speeds in the other cities tested. RootMetrics said that in short EE customers should find both widespread access to 5G plus fast speeds in all four cities featured in the June 5G Scorecard. EE’s lowest speed clocked was 113.5 Mbps in Glasgow, while its fastest Everyday 5G median download speed was 135.3 Mbps in Cardiff. Overall, the June scorecard revealed that competition among the UK’s four main 5G network providers is intensifying and showed that while Vodafone and O2 delivered strong Everyday 5G median download speeds in the first half of 2021- with Vodafone clocking the single-fastest Everyday 5G median download speed of any operator at 192.2 Mbps in Glasgow - EE was still the leader when it came to providing the combination of consistently broad availability plus fast speeds for UK mobile users.ĮE had the highest Everyday 5G availability in all four cities tested, and its Everyday 5G median download speeds were consistently strong. The mobile network performance benchmark firm’s study aims to provide insights into the most typical end-user 5G experience in the leading UK cities looking at “everyday” performance using both 5G-only technology and 5G mixed-mode, that is the everyday common experience of switching between 5G and 4G LTE networks.

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