The country’s public payphones will be tirned into high-speed connectivity hubs courtesy of BT and the Media & Entertainment group Global. The two companies have signed a 10-year partnership to upgrade legacy payphones and 2,000 payphones into digital hubs for local communities in more than 200 towns and cities that will provide public Wi-Fi and

Results collated from around a million user-generated tests from iOS and Android speedtest.net app

5G data speeds reached 2.2Gbps in lab testing and is expected to reach over 1.7Gbps on the network when applied in the real world

Network operator also recognised as fastest for 5G by Ookla

Apple and Samsung dominates the top-30 for overall rankings

The highest recorded 5G speed was in the US with 1.81 gigabit per second, three times faster than 4G’s top score