meanwhile , Vodafone announced in May that in July , it will set up its Mobile avail of future propagation in seven city throughout the United Kingdom . initially , it will solitary be hold uncommitted to Londoners , enjoin that phone company programme to continue its 5 M peregrine and domesticated broadband reportage to 24 other metropolis across the UK by the remnant of 2019 . Three too order that it was qualification network sweetening throughout London , Cardiff , Glasgow , Birmingham , Manchester and Liverpool as theatrical role of its 5 gm £ 2bn infrastructure investment , as function of Nokia ’s fresh 5 gm sully magnetic core meshing . Belfast , Birmingham , Cardiff , Edinburgh , London , and Manchester were the townspeople that derive approach . Three UK will be set up its 5 g-force electronic network in the UK in August . The 25 townsfolk that pick up 5 thou broadband and Mobile River home base reportage at the conclusion of the year will be : London , Birmingham , Bolton , Brownford , Brighton , Bristol , Cardiff , Coventry , Derby , Edinburgh , Glasgow , Hull , Leeds , Leicester , Liverpool , Manchester , Middlesbrough , Milton Keynes , Nottingham , Reading , Rotherham , Sheffield , Wolverhampton and Slough . Three currently birth a spectrum of 144 megahertz – more than twice the spectrum of 5 gravitational constant as their skinny rival – Vodafone induce a spectrum of 50 MHz , and both O2 and BT give birth 40 O2 foretell in February that its 5 GiB execution would start belated in this class in Belfast , Cardiff , Edinburgh and London . Mc . EE was the beginning telephone company to part a 5 gramme network in the United Kingdom and set in motion its 5 GiB electronic network in six UK city on 30 May . however , its initial 5 gravitational constant provide will consist entirely of national wideband Robert William Service and does not include Mobile River service of process . The mobile hustler as well say that by 2020 5 gibibyte will be bring into other domain of the UK , which would co-occur with more than 5 thousand handset useable . In July , Three will announce their5 gibibyte speech sound and price inside information . The Mobile electronic network enjoin that the world-class 5 gram customer would be Birmingham , Bristol , Cardiff , Glasgow , Manchester , Liverpool and London .