What will happen with 5G on giffgaff?

formulaone

Nice one, to see O2/giffgaff will follow.I'm afraid it won't be me testing 5G for while, only just recently bought myself a new phone. So It'll be a while before I get to have a chance of 5G.I'm also happy with my current speeds of 4G. Ofcom should be looking to improve 2G/3G and even 4G (for those in areas that don't have it too well), before introducing 5G! &#128578

justin3017

formulaone I totally agree, the 4G network is patchy in places especially in areas near me too. I'm not interested in having a 5g compatible phone, would prefer to see better 4g service/network. Not that I am un happy with giffgaff, they provide a great service, its just the 02 network is patchy someplaces.

jaymailsays

5G details for giffgaff are a bit sketchy, whereas 3 network claim they "have more 5G spectrum than anyone else. We're the only UK mobile network to have 100MHZ of 5G spectrum in one big block." 3 say they are 5G Ready at no extra cost. Can we have a few more details on giffgaff's offer?

amand48383

jaymailsays
I have just left Three today for giffgaff, I can't even get 3G in many places with them so there is no point in them plugging 5G to me when we were miles behind with basic services.

lorann

jaymailsays good point actually

jokeyboi77

It'll be years before I see 5G in my area so need to worry about it just yet for me @dc_caton78.

sm_b

Still can't get 4G without going a mile away from home so I'm not that interested in 5G

ma2013

Can we have the same prices on the Goodybags for 5G this time? Just change the 4G to 5G and keep everything else the same please?

cadufo86

These are all the mobiles compatible with the 5G conexion

Samsung Galaxy Fold 5G

ZTE Axon 10 Pro 5G

Huawei Mate X

Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 5G

TCL Alcatel 7

Oppo Find X 5G

OnePlus 5G

Motorola Moto Mod 5G for Moto Z3

LG V50 ThinQ

Energizer Power Max P8100S

Nubia Mini 5G

roxy_r

Morning folks,

Great feedback and great questions! I will let @dc_caton78 answer all of that. It will be interesting to see how we balance all of it: coverage, phone capability and desire to move to 5G, especially when, like some of you have mentioned, not everyone is at the moment taking full advantage of 4G.

cloughey

Thanks for the info, however like most people nowadays having to upgrade your phone to be able to use it places it well down in the priority list (and most people are now holding on to phones longer). It is good that giffgaff are looking into it, but any suggestion that it may be structured or priced any differently than existing goody bags will put people off further.

ma2013

I'm definitely not going to upgrade to a 5G phone... Not until my current phone (Samsung Galaxy S8) dies. However, I do remember just before the launch of 4G...the 3G Goodybags suddenly had loads of data added to them.... Like the 4G ones will on 14th August. .

Pretty sure we'll have separate 5G (more expensive) Goodybags some time this year, like we did have separate 3G and 4G ones.

stephenpperry

Thanks for the info, I'm one of those people interested in the news. I won't be upgrading my phone any time soon though so it won't make that much difference to me. I'm hoping more networks take a stance like three and give 5G to everyone as standard. The EE model of charging (the way most networks did for 4G) was frankly terrible.

yvonnearmstrong

@dc_caton78

Nice informative post but I'm like other people quite happy with 4g and have no plans to buy a new phone

Cheers

Yvonne

peterkemp60

yvonnearmstrong I agree with you IAM not botherd a bout 5g I struggle to get 4g in my area

ryanchen6

Need to get a 5G phone first

figment_uk

I can't wait for 5G to be available, and for the data-hungry masses to start using it. Then there might be a decent 4G offering available for the rest of us

bernienatch

Surely before pushing out 5g which will short term benefit The Few, it would be better to finish off fixing 4g capabilities 1st..where the majority of us are going to be for a long while. I can barely get 4g where I am and it's been around a few years now.

richardbaker54

5g is extremely fast much much faster than 4g, there is a massive difference between the 2 systems in terms of speed.

darkman87

Also what plans (goody bags)will be on offer?

johnstreetgaff

Will need a 5G phone then. Mine is only 3g at present!

alexmccarthy1212

Has Apple set a timetable in regard to 5G?

traelkom

I would,

Thanks 🙂

pete2009

Thanks for the update however I personally probably won't be using 5G for a little while as I will need a new phone.

Cheers