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EE Will Be First To Launch 5G May 30th

Bambino — Thu, 23 May 2019 17:32:29 GMT

Don't rush out to get it. According to this article,"full next-generation 5G"will not be available until 2022, which is probably the same for all the networks.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48363462

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pgn — Thu, 23 May 2019 17:38:19 GMT

Early-adopters, you reckon? 🙄

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Glory1 — Thu, 23 May 2019 18:18:17 GMT

Early adopter's cashing in on the number of 5G phones that will soon be available.

Personally I'm not rushing to change my phone; I'm happy with it's speeds, love the quality of the picture streaming films and TV and, even if I was so inclined, I can't afford to pay off my phone this early in the conrract.

However, if O2 do what a network operator did in Australia, offering customers who purchasef the 4G Galaxy S10+, a new 5G Galaxy S10+ in exchange, I wouldn't say no. But seriously, can't see O2 doing that. Think of the money they'd lose

But I can dream

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Cleoriff — Thu, 23 May 2019 18:31:52 GMT

Thanks for the update @Bambino

I certainly wont be rushing out to change anything soon. What I have now suits me just fine

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Anonymous — Thu, 23 May 2019 19:10:23 GMT

No need to change anything 4G is much better in this area. No need to do anything as good 5G coverage won’t happen for at least another 5 years I bet

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jonsie — Thu, 23 May 2019 19:17:30 GMT

It's a little sad that EE seem to be first in any innovations whereas it used to be something O2 were good at.

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Anonymous — Thu, 23 May 2019 20:00:07 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
It's a little sad that EE seem to be first in any innovations whereas it used to be something O2 were good at.

Well they’ve got deep pockets

I don’t think any network can hope to compete with them, never mind O2. It wasn’t always the case, but EE are very good nowadays.

They might be expensive for some people, but sometimes you get what you pay for.

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jonsie — Thu, 23 May 2019 20:04:41 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@jonsie wrote:
It's a little sad that EE seem to be first in any innovations whereas it used to be something O2 were good at.
Well they’ve got deep pockets

I don’t think any network can hope to compete with them, never mind O2. It wasn’t always the case, but EE are very good nowadays.

They might be expensive for some people, but sometimes you get what you pay for.

That's ery true. I have an EE sim and their 4G speeds are much faster than O2 in my areas of travel.

Re: EE Will Be First To Launch 5G May 30th

Anonymous — Thu, 23 May 2019 20:39:30 GMT

In the right conditions it will generally outperform my fibre broadband, which is mad really. But saying that, 4G doesn't always give you a reliable connection, and it will struggle in situations where too many people are trying to connect at the same time. I was at the Principality Stadium recently, and it would take ages to load a web page. Apparently, 5G has greater bandwidth and is more capable in those situations.

Mind you, they've only got four 5G devices that are available for pre-order:

https://ee.co.uk/why-ee/best-5g-phones

Maybe next year

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liggerz87 — Fri, 24 May 2019 06:24:07 GMT

@Glory1 if you did that and got s10 5g you'd lose the ability to have your s10 to have a micro SD card

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Anonymous — Thu, 30 May 2019 08:37:08 GMT

I’ve just been watching a BBC reporter demonstrating the capabilities of 5G (it’s being launched in six cities today), and it was impressive. But what’s really concerning is the admission that they’d temporarily lost the service, because they’d run out of mobile data faster than they’d anticipated.

It’s hardly surprising when you’re downloading whole movies for example, but it means you’re going to have consider increasing your data allowances in order to fully benefit from that service, which could be expensive for some people.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48426481

Edit: to add clarification.

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Anonymous — Fri, 31 May 2019 21:47:44 GMT

There was something about them deploying 5G temporary masts at Glastonbury but I gather it's just the air interface that is being deployed, it'll be connected to the existing 4G core network and I imagine that'll be true for most as upgrading the core networks isn't likely to be quick or cheap.

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Cleoriff — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 08:41:26 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
There was something about them deploying 5G temporary masts at Glastonbury but I gather it's just the air interface that is being deployed, it'll be connected to the existing 4G core network and I imagine that'll be true for most as upgrading the core networks isn't likely to be quick or cheap.

I can't understand the rationale for installing 5G at Glastonbury. It would be the last place I would be willing to take my extremely expensive brand new 5G phone!!

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Anonymous — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 17:51:13 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
There was something about them deploying 5G temporary masts at Glastonbury but I gather it's just the air interface that is being deployed, it'll be connected to the existing 4G core network and I imagine that'll be true for most as upgrading the core networks isn't likely to be quick or cheap.
I can't understand the rationale for installing 5G at Glastonbury. It would be the last place I would be willing to take my extremely expensive brand new 5G phone!!

@Cleoriff

Two words of course.

Marketing drive.

I'd imagine they hope to persuade a few thousand festival goers to move to EE.

I tend to be discreet about using my phone in public anyway but as you say, looking at the premium on the handsets currently, I'd imagine some of the thieving low lifes will be looking to pinch some of these.

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Cleoriff — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 18:16:52 GMT

@Anonymous

Of course you have a point there re marketing and changing to EE. That went completely over my head

I still wouldn't take my every expensive phone there though.

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Anonymous — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 18:39:30 GMT

@Cleoriff

Indeed, it's all hype anyway.

Guaranteed that once rollout id widespread and more people are using it there'll be complaints about people getting 'only' 350 Mbps to their handsets.

The more capacity that becomes available, the more people will use.

The marketing aimed at the operators tends to revolve around how many subscribers a new base station can support and how much more power efficicent and easy to manage it is.

That side of things tends to interest me more than handsets to be honest.