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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Jordan Page

Why is the UK’s phone signal so bad? 5G issues explained

If you’ve been having trouble with your mobile phone signal recently, you’re not alone. Usually associated with remote parts of the country, poor signal is also proving an issue for people living in large towns and cities across the UK. 

According to a Which? survey, a third of the UK’s mobile phone users have experienced problems with their network provider in the past year, with 17 per cent complaining about their connection – including network dropouts, recurrent outages, and consistently bad phone signals. 

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