Tuesday 14 May 2019

Vodafone sets U.K. 5G launch for July 3, plans 19-city network in 2019.

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British carrier Vodafone confirmed today that it’s almost ready to begin offering commercial 5G services across the United Kingdom — first in a handful of cities, with a wider rollout later this year. The company said that its FutureNet 5G network will launch in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, and Glasgow on July 3, a slightly different lineup from what was originally planned for this year.

Last September, Vodafone used a 5G demo event to announce that it would soon be commencing 5G tests across seven cities, with plans to launch live networks in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Cornwall, and the Lake District in 2019, then expand to 1,000 sites by 2020. Now the company says that it will launch its first seven sites in July, followed by Birkenhead, Blackpool, Bournemouth, Guildford, Newbury, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Reading, Southampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Warrington, and Wolverhampton before the end of 2019.



By Jeremy Horwitz
Full story at Venture Beat.




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