Except..
Every new mobile phone in 1-2 years will be using the 'system on a chip' 5G Qualcomm or 5G Intel module. The expectation will be there, rightly or wrongly, we live in a consumer society.
Are you going to break it to them that UK is not upto 5G speed? Crucially why the market is not working to provide 5G even though we have regulators Ofcom to supposedly make sure a competitive market exists, so 5G (in theory) should happen of its own accord (but doesn't).
To clarify though, 3G / 4G showing on your phone gives you no indication of a restricted bandwidth capacity on the microwave relay/fibre backhaul to/from the mast, to re-transmit 4G data, or the level of backhaul contention/number of concurrent users currently active with you.
Network Operators trickery can mean they can upgrade a mast to show 'were now 3G/4G' but without any underlying upgrade to the backhaul connection to the mast, to cater for the increased data throughput. Something that Ofcom should regulate but doesn't.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
