5G standalone in the UK: where the networks are and the road to 6G
Caleb Belanger5 October 20266 Mins read69
In June, Opensignal published its comparison of 5G performance across 29 European countries for the first quarter of 2026, and the UK came 29th. British users averaged 84 Mbps on 5G against 226 Mbps in Denmark. The figure that stood out, though, was a different one. According to ISPreview’s write-up of the study, UK smartphone users were connected to standalone 5G for just 5.2% of the time. That is strange,…
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