British telco EE is set to expand its 5G+ network, providing 33 towns and 26 summer events and festivals with a signal boost.
These events include All Points East, BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2026, Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, Big Feastival, Boomtown, BST Hyde Park, Creamfields, Devon County Show, Download Festival, Eisteddfod, Formula One British GP At Silverstone, Game Fair, Goodwood Festival Of Speed, Hillside 2026, In It Together Festival, Isle Of Wight Festival, Kendall Calling, Latitude Festival, Lost Village, Leeds Festival, Parklife Festival, Reading Festival, Royal Ascot, The Royal Welsh Show, Ynot Festival, and the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
These towns include Ballynahinch, Blackpool, Blackwood, Bournemouth, Canvey Island, Chepstow, Chester-le-Street, Coleraine, Dawlish, Dumbarton, East Kilbride, Eastleigh, Falkirk, Flint, Hebden Bridge, Holywell, Lisburn, Monmouth, Motherwell, Newport (Isle of Wight), Pontypridd, Porthcawl, Rhyl, Risca, Roslin, St Ives (Cambridgeshire), Stroud, Tonypandy, Torquay, Weston-super-Mare, Whitehaven, Whitley Bay, and Winchester.
5G+ is also known as 5G Standalone. EE launched the network in September 2024 and aims to reach 99 percent of the country's population by the end of FY30.
Despite being the first UK telco to launch its 5G network back in 2019, EE was the third to launch 5G SA, behind Vodafone and Virgin Media O2.
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