EE To Switch on UK's First 5G Network on May 30

UK mobile carrier EE announced its plans to launch 5G in the UK on Wednesday. The network will be switched on on May 30, with the first 5G phones available to preorder from today. From a report: EE's initial 5G rollout will focus on six cities (London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham and Manchester), with promises to expand to 19 cities by the end of the year. EE CEO Marc Allera promised EE 5G customers would experience average download speeds of 156 Mbps. It will be "like having a lane of the motorway all to yourself," he said, speaking at an event in London. The first devices EE will offer on its 5G plans include the OnePlus 7 Pro, the Samsung Galaxy S10, the Oppo Reno 5G, the LG V50 ThinQ, a 5G home router and an HTC Wi-Fi device. Plans start from $68 per month (for 10GB of data) and extend up to $94 per month (for 120GB of data). Earlier this month, EE announced it would offer the Huawei Mate 20 X as one of the first 5G phones it offered to customers, but due to the developments earlier this week calling into question the future of Android on Huawei phones, the network has pulled them from its initial 5G device lineup. "We've put the Huawei devices on pause until we've got a bit more information on that," said Allera.

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[olsmeister]

And if it's like what is going on here in the States, they will want to add a '5G surcharge' because you aren't paying enough already. Kind of like the Cable and Satellite companies did by adding an HD surcharge to receive HDTV signals, which hung around well past the time where HD was anything special.

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[bn-7bc]

Depends un ypur use case I guess bot if 5G somewhat lives up to it’s promises, you will get significantly reduced rtt ( unless the server you cumunicatevwith is half a continent or more away). As one point of comoarison i get the same rtt on the first hop on 4G as i get from me to a server in the Netherlands, that is several thosand kilometres, (ftth is nice) so teducing yhst first hop rtt is deffenetly a bonus

So no Huawei phones

[93 Escort Wagon]

But the article doesn’t mention on whose equipment the 5G network itself will be running.

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[arglebargle_xiv]

Probably Huawei. Why do you think the US is so obsessed with them, no US vendor is anywhere near the level and price point that Huawei are providing, so they have to beat them by hook or by crook. Specifically, crook in this case.

10GB/mo?

[OneHundredAndTen]

If they want for 5G networks to take they'd better start significantly pushing up the caps - at 5G speeds, 10GB won't last more than a few days. Even 128GB is not all that much, bearing in mind that people will start doing things that they did not up till now, because of speed limitations.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Even 128GB is not all that much, bearing in mind that people will start doing things that they did not up till now, because of speed limitations.

Well, just like the last few iterations of cell networks, they tout how much faster it is in the demos and the glossy stuff, but at the end of the day, you have no more bandwidth than before because they have failed to invest in their trunk lines.

This has been true of home internet, and phone internet ... those benefits from the new hotness only apply while someone

$68 for 10GB of data?

[cnaumann]

That works out to 16.5 seconds of data per day.

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[SlaveToTheGrind]

That works out to 16.5 seconds of data per day.

And a sports car driven with the gas pedal constantly to the floor gets about 2MPG [youtube.com]. But what was your point again?

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[thegarbz]

That works out to 16.5 seconds of data per day.

Damn, looks like I'll have to focus on the reduced latency, increased capacity in crowds, and better battery life features that 5G provides then.