Research from Uswitch shows that while a third of Brits (32 per cent) now own a 5G handset, one in six mobile users (16 per cent) feel the technology is overhyped and less than half of 5G users (41 per cent) say they have experienced improvements in speed or reliability.
Despite the findings, a quarter (23 per cent) of consumers are planning to buy or upgrade to a 5G handset within the next two years.
The results, which come from an Opinium poll of 2,000 UK adults, also show that nearly one in six 5G users in rural areas (17 per cent) say they have never been able to connect to the network, although those living in cities struggle less (6 per cent).
Yorkshire has some of the UK’s worst connectivity, with less than half of people failing to get even a reliable 4G signal (48 per cent), while Glasgow is the UK’s 5G hotspot with 49 per cent of users receiving it regularly.
More than 16 million people own a 5G-enabled handset in the UK but the government has...