Thursday, Oct 2nd, 2025 (9:18 am) - Score 1,280Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) have today announced that they’re aiming to expand the population coverage of their latest 5G Standalone (5GSA) mobile network to reach 99% of the UK by the end of FY30. Earlier deployments of 5G were largely Non-Standalone (NSA), which meant they were partly reliant upon older and slower 4G infrastructure. EE’s New Mobile Technologies ➤ EE today announces that it is the first European mobile network to deploy a new generation of Massive MIMO units (Ericsson AIR 3284, the world’s first 5G triple-band FDD Massive MIMO radio). ➤ We last month announced that we are the first operator in the world to launch Advanced RAN Coordination (ARC) in our distributed mobile network. We should also recognise that achieving 99% 5G+ coverage, while an important milestone, will not by itself resolve every challenge around mobile coverage and capacity.