5G in rural areas

D14

Member
Anybody know when we will be able to get hold of 5G dongles etc? Just looking at new phone/broadband packages for 18 and 24 months and thinking it might just be easier to dump the landlines and stick with mobiles then putting 5G dongles in the farmhouse etc. I know EE have rolled it out in London but I can’t find any info regarding rural areas?
 

Exfarmer

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Location
Bury St Edmunds
Anybody know when we will be able to get hold of 5G dongles etc? Just looking at new phone/broadband packages for 18 and 24 months and thinking it might just be easier to dump the landlines and stick with mobiles then putting 5G dongles in the farmhouse etc. I know EE have rolled it out in London but I can’t find any info regarding rural areas?
Dream on !
 

Chris F

Staff Member
Media
Location
Hammerwich
We have it around the Birmingham area, but no idea on roll out times. I can;t get 4g half the time I'm visiting customers in rural areas. So I'll say 5 years.
 

upnortheast

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Northumberland
From what I`ve read 5G differs from 3 / 4G
Stick a 4G mast on a hill top & it probably covers a 5 mile radius.
Because of the frequencies 5G operates on it is high speed / lower range so the 4G solution does not give coverage.
It needs lots of "nodes" covering small areas.
Which would suggest it is not ideal in rural areas
Someone with more knowledge than me will probly be along shortly
@Pheasant Surprise ?
 
Stick a 4G mast on a hill top & it probably covers a 5 mile radius.

I'm 8.5 miles from the nearest mast and can usually get over 50 Mb/s on 4G as opposed to 1 Mb/s down the phone line.

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A £20 a month card from Three for unlimited data (and calls when I pop the card in a phone) and I save £8.00 on my landline rental when the existing BT Internet contract expires shortly.

5G, having a shorter wavelength, will not travel as far so I suspect if 5G is deployed in Rural areas it will be at the very bottom end of the frequency spectrum. Don't hold your breath; it's sales hype at present.
 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
80% of my farm has no signal at all. 10% has 4G and the rest 3G. I'm not holding my breath though we've been approached by various mast operators about having a tower here. Never got much further.
 

Hindsight

Member
Location
Lincolnshire
Anybody know when we will be able to get hold of 5G dongles etc? Just looking at new phone/broadband packages for 18 and 24 months and thinking it might just be easier to dump the landlines and stick with mobiles then putting 5G dongles in the farmhouse etc. I know EE have rolled it out in London but I can’t find any info regarding rural areas?


You been believing what the new Prime Minister says? Hey ho.
 
There’s two main frequency bands that will be used around the world for 5G. The first is below 6 GHz. The second is between 20 to 60 GHz.

As of now in the UK, Ofcom have sold 5G spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band to all the big boys. I believe that Vodafone got the largest slice of the action.

As of right now, Vodafone will sell you a GigaCube 5G with unlimited use for £50 on an 18 month contract or £350 up front for a 30 day rolling agreement. Your postcode has to have at least 4G coverage before they’ll sell you one.

There is only spotty 5G coverage right now in the biggest cities.

You will be waiting a lot longer, probably around 2 years before it goes much farther. Speed of deployment depends very much on takeup. The carriers almost bankrupted themselves with the 3G auctions nigh on twenty years ago. They won’t repeat the same mistake with 5G and the rollout too will be slower and more difficult.
 
4G is indeed very reliable.

My 4G service from EE did stellar service as the sole broadband for almost 6 years from early 2014 until my FTTP went live a month or two ago. It carried our landline voice as voip and also backhauled our mobile voice Suresignal traffic.

I still keep it as a backup, as I reckon it won’t take much for a tree branch to mince our aerial fiber connection as it’s spans about 35 poles on its way here.

Although fibre has been great, I’ve got little faith in the speed of repair from opensheep
 

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