Three UK's Gigabit 5G Poles Explained

Peter Clarke does a great service to the mobile industry, especially in UK, with his detailed look at the mobile network's infrastructure. 

Three UK was Huawei shop but after the limitations imposed on them, they moved to Ericsson and announced with a big bang.

We are rolling out #5G across the UK 🇬🇧 together with @ThreeUK and we’re adding new @ericsson -powered 5G sites in Manchester, Glasgow and Reading!https://t.co/p8hCgqLys6 pic.twitter.com/WoND1ErqLS

— Ericsson Networks (@EricssonNetwork) December 3, 2020

When they said in December that they will have 1000 5G sites, many were left wondering how many of those would be Huawei and Ericsson

Three UK says it will have 1,000 5G sites by end of the year. How many will be Huawei sites - and so will have to come out at some point? (It has selected Ericsson for next stage of rollout) pic.twitter.com/OuLkZaozKE

— Keith Dyer (@keithdyer) December 17, 2020

But they did make a fantastic progress transitioning to E///

2020: A profound year of progress for Three UK
-5G site count surpassed 1000 milestone
-Over 4000 4G capacity adds completed to date
-More than 600 brand new Phase 8 monopoles approved, Ericsson mobilising well
-Effective Phase 7 adoption
-UK Broadband site reparenting complete pic.twitter.com/Osh89DQFmw

— Peter Clarke (@PedroClarke1) December 28, 2020

Now Peter has made a video detailing the Ericsson Three UK sites. It has a lot of useful information and is embedded below.

Let us know what do you think.

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