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Vodafone has 19.7% share in the UK mobile phone market and is the 3rd largest of the mobile phone companies. Together with O2 it was one of the original mobile network operators in the UK. It operated part of the 900MHz band for their 2G coverage. It purchased a significant amount of 3G frequency bandwidth and the largest amount of 4G frequency spectrum; also the largest amount of 3.4GHz frequency in the 5G auction. Over the years it has accumulated a large amount of spectrum within which to operate it's business. This may be a sound business principal as frequency spectrum is a scarce resource.

The frequencies that Vodafone use are :

800MHzBand 204G
900MHzBand 82G + 3G
1400MHzSDLBand 324G
1800MHzBand 32G
2100MHzBand 13G
2600MHzFDDBand 74G
2600MHzTDDBand 384G
3400MHzBand 785G
3600MHzBand 775G

Vodafone claims to cover 99% of the UK population for 2G / 3G / 4G. The 4G coverage is mainly standard 4G but it is building up 4G+ into the larger UK cities, including London, Birmingham and Manchester. Currently Vodafone download speeds, using 4G, are currently 96Mbps. Counter intuitively this is the same as the average 5G download speed.

For 4G Vodafone use 800MHz band to cover large areas with 4G. Additionally they use 2600MHz to provide more capacity to the 4G network.

In the auctions to 5G frequency Vodafone purchased a significant amount of frequency between 3.4GHz and 3.8GHz. This is ideal to provide capacity over busy areas. However Vodafone did not purchase any frequency at the 700MHz range that will be used by the other mobile operators to cover larger areas. Hence they currently cannot offer the 5G coverage of the other operators. Vodafone plan to use 900MHz frequency for this purpose. Currently this is used for 2G & 3G traffic. When 3G is switched off this frequency will be re-purposed for 5G.

Additionally the switching off og 3G will free up the 2100mHz frequency for use on other networks. The 1400MHz SDL (Supplementary Download Link) owned by Vodafone is designed to add capacity to 4G download speed. Vodafone plan to make more use of this frequency in the coming months.

Vodafone as a company have built a large and growing broadband business in the UK which has now reached the 5% market penetration. They have a presence on the High Street. They sell home broadband, mobile phones, mobile routers and data connections to their network.