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[2025-01-18 image ©ATIS] The headline on a recent article in lightreading, the International Editor claimed that "No One in the Real World Cares About 5G Stand Alone" Is he right?

When 5G was first set up in the UK it was implemented as 5GNR (New Radio) or 5GNSA (Not Stand Alone); which basically it meant that thee wireless bit was 5G but the backhaul wad through the 4G backhaul. Only now, some 5 years after 5G was first installed are we getting 5GSA (Stand Alone) meaning that the backhaul uses a seperate 5G backhaul which is faster than the 4G backhaul.

The implication in the headline is - do we really need 5GSA? It is true that 5G has had a poor press, users of mobile phones only saw limited improvement when using 5G,NR if indeed there is any improvement and there is a belief that it is no better than 4G. Again most mobile customers do not have a need for faster communications. It is nice to have the web page load a bit faster, or a video lod faster but the speed is not really an issue. I, am not screaming out for a faster network, as I was when 4G was introduced. What I, and many others are screaming out for is coverage. We want good 4G or 5G coverage over the whole of the UK, or at least places where we visit.

One major issue for 5G (either NR or SA) is that there is no killer 5G app. No app that needs 5G; cannot work with 4G. There is none and none soon to appear over the horizon. Hence that headline - we are not screaming for 5GSA, 4G does just fine.

The 5GSA supporters in the industry claim that 5GSA will be a benefit to business with much improved IoT or Real-Time applications. Whilst 5GSA may give benefits to business the consumer does not see much. We will not need 5GSA to get our smart energy meters to work (the upgrades from 2G are using 4G). the real-time app we see in the press most often is self driving cars which do not need 5GSA.

In 4 years 6G will be available; given that 5GSA is not really seen as needed ,will the mobile operators rush to build 6G at great cost but little increase in revenue.

[Finally just a note that O2 keep publicising that they have installed 5GSA in another area of the UK - it sees O2 still have faith in the technology]

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[2025-12-14 image ©VMO2] There are regular report from each of the three mobile operators that they are installing more 5GSA masts. 5GSA being 5G Stand Alone, rather than 5GNR [New Radio]. This ill have the effect that the 5G communications are end to end and the data is not passed to the 4G backhaul. We should all expect to see an increase in speed when we see the '5G' symbol on our phones.

The side effect of this , as well as mobile users seeing a faster 5G network, is that we will hopefully see some 5G applications coming online - perhaps those that cannot really run on 4G due to it's lack of speed.

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[2025-11-30 image ©national trust] This is the beautiful Norfolk countryside that has a reputation of green fields, sandy beaches and poor mobile reception. To improve the latter O2 has announced a switch on of their 5GSA (stand alone) network over the county.

5GSA is the best 5G service with end to end 5G. This makes for a better network, faster more capacity less lag. O2 are bringing this network to Norfolk that will allow locals and tourists both to get the benefits. A better 5G network for the local businesses will provide a better environment for many trades.

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[2025-10-05 image © Telecom Review Europe.] After a shaky start for 5G where it was only the wireless that was 5G and the backhaul used the 4G core; there has been a move to increase the 5G-SA (Stand Alone) network over more of the UK. This as the name implies uses a newer and faster core network designed specifically 5G.

EE are looking to deploy 5GSA to 17 new cities and towns throughout the UK. O2 are looking to deploy 5GSA to 500 new Towns and Cities in order to become the leading 5GSA network in the UK, VodafoneThree are using the merger to enhance their deployment of 5GSA. Whatever the number are planned we all hope that 5G-SA will become more available by the end of 2025.

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(2024-08-18 image ©medium) A significant criticism of the first 5G networks in the Uk is that these were 5G NR. Which basically meant that whilst the radio was new / 5G (NR = New Radio) the backhaul and infrastructure was not. What was needed is 5G SA (SA = Stand Alone). Now with 5G SA, technologies such as network slicing can be employed by business

Vodafone are claiming that there are may companies interested in investing in 5G now that 5G SA is becoming a reality. [Note that the other 3 mobile operators are moving to 5G as well as Vodafone].

The advantage of 5G was never about abetter faster mobile broadband for mobile phone customers, 4G+ does really well in this space. 5G was also about business solution using advanced technolgies. Now with 5G SA this is becoming a possibility.

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(2023-09-23 image ©5gworldpro) 5G came in with a wimper, it was 5G on the wireless side but 4G on the backhaul. Now maybe it is time for 5G to shine with 5GSA.

One of the tricks(?) with 5G is to combine channels to give a faster speed - this is called carrier aggregation.

In a trial BT with Nokia equipment managed a 250Gbps uplink and 1Gbps download. Now this was in ideal lab environment and not in busy Oxfrod Street on a wet Saturday but it doid show the potential.

We can hope that BT can move the trial into reality and maybe expand on the numbers. Then. If we can achieve these figures regularly then we can question why are we digging up our streets to install fibre!

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Enea has announced the deployment its 5G network data layer (NDL) solution, Stratum to create the industry’s first 3GPP Release 16 interoperability interface in a 5G standalone (5GSA) environment for a tier one North American operator. The interface will allow the mobile operator to bring together all network and subscriber data from across its 4G and 5G networks.