Isle of Wight 5G coverage will be coming increasingly important as we all become used to higher broadband speeds.
It’s been quite a few years that the latest mobile phone standard 5G has been available in the UK, so News OnTheWight thought it’d be time to do for 5G what we’d done previously – an Isle of Wight 4G coverage maps – to see what kind of coverage the Isle of Wight has.
What does 5G bring?
The promise of 5G mobile is faster data speeds, making it faster to browse the Web, or watch videos. Quite a number of mobile handsets now have the ability to use 5G too.
The best way of getting a view on the coverage is by looking at the maps that we’ve gathered together for you below.
Overview of coverage
A quick preview – It’s pretty terrible atm, with Vodafone ranking bottom with seemingly zero 5G coverage on the Island.
The best – and it’s still pretty feeble, is EE with seeming coverage a bit around Whitwell; some in the West between Freshwater and Yarmouth; a reasonable amount around Newport, Nettlestone, Wooton and Ryde. There’s also a small spot in Cowes.
Quite how much of this is due to Mainland coverage coming over to the Island isn’t clear, but is a distinct possibility and you can see, a lot of the Solent has great coverage!
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EE
O2
Vodafone
Three
How have you found 5G here?
Of course, what the mobile companies show on a theoretical map and what real life coverage is like is often very different.
How have you found 5G coverage here?
