Vodafone and O2 agree to share 5G infrastructure
Vodafone and O2 have said they will share active 5G equipment, such as radio antennas, in a bid to improve coverage faster as the infrastructure-heavy network is rolled out across the country. While 5G boasts dramatically improved speeds, capacity and latency over 4G, the nature of the technology means that the amount of coverage provided by each small cell is lower than earlier generations of mobile network. This means that a greater amount of physical infrastructure will need to be built, an expensive and involved process that could hamper the new networks’ coverage in the early stages.