London's 5G is falling behind other major cities, says MedUX QoE report

Illustration: A person sits next to a cell tower on the roof of a building overlooking the London skyline
A new quality of experience (QoE) report by network tester MedUX found that London's 5G QoE ranked among the worst on a list of major European cities. (Art by Midjourney for Fierce Network)

MedUX, a leader in mobile network testing, today released its comprehensive European Crowdsourcing Report, offering insights into 5G quality and experience across the continent.

This solution, deployed in over 100 countries and capturing insights from over 50 million smartphone users, provides a real-time view of the actual 5G experience, highlighting the gap between aspirations and reality. With its quality of experience (QoE) crowdsourced data set, this report further reaffirms previous findings from MedUX’s 2024 and subsequent 2025 European rankings where London’s 5G QoE was last when compared to other major European cities.

The U.K.’s Digital Strategy sets a bold vision for near ubiquitous Gigabit coverage by 2030. However, the MedUX report findings reveal a significant gap between these aspirations and the current reality of end-user experience.

Read the report here.