What router are Vodafone providing for their 5g home broadband plans, does anyone have an exact model number?
I think EE haven’t launched theirs yet because Huawei is not supplying the routers EE advertised (not 100% sure on this )
Vodafone are using the Huawei B528 Gigacube https://www.vodafone.co.uk/gigacube/
Everyone jumped on the Huawei bandwagon for 5G. Thats why its been a big issue in the UK agreeing to still use them. Three are to use Huawei too.
But that’s a LTE router not 5g
I take it back, it might not be the B528 but it is definitely Huawei. I can’t find a model number though.
Edit: It looks like it is very like a Huawei 5G CPE Pro as you suggested. https://consumer.huawei.com/en/press/news/2019/huawei-launched-5g-cpe-pro/
This seems like a no-brainer for anyone without Fibre.
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I believe it’s the Huawei 5g CPE pro, same as what EE announced,
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Yeah, I had a very poor ADSL connection since moving into my new property but made the leap when Three brought out the £20/month unlimited data deal. Don’t even have a landline now.
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I would have done just that if Virgin hadn’t shown up. We STILL only have ~3Mbps on ADSL2 where I live. Virgin can provide 500Mbps without any problems as the fibre infrastructure was installed in 2016 
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As a followup to my OP I’ve sacked off Vodafone before the 30 days they give you before the termination fees kick in.
Weirdly the sync rate only got to 64Mbps than the ~80Mbps with PlusNet before switching. Same house, same line, same Openreach DLM. Because it was above 55Mbps guaranteed they said they wouldn’t look into it. Vodafone support is possibly the worst I’ve encountered, when you get “have you tried your wifi settings?” as a response, and you’ve just literally said the throughput matches the sync its painful. They talk with Tech2 who just tell them to tell me to deal with it
Anyway I’ve swapped to Now Broadband 12 mth deal.
£30 a month, although with Quidco £90 and the friendly Liverpudlian chap who gave me a month free due to the champions league win when I phoned to follow up, turns it into £20 equivalent which ain’t bad.
I think in a years time 5G broadband will hopefully have unlimited packages at sensible costs and available outside the major cities.
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Goodness. I’m with BT and when my speed dropped 10mb down to 64. They sent an engineer to the house who spent a couple of hours diagnosing inside and at the street cabinet but couldn’t find the root cause so he swapped me to another line and restored my full speed.
I know this is an old thread, but rather than make a new one.
I’ve been revisiting 5G Home Broadband after seeing the price/potential speed vs Virgin is pretty good.
Anyone here been using Three’s 5G Broadband yet - and any thoughts on the service so far?
Pegged to get faster than my current (200mbps) for less £, but I’m not sure of the reliability overall…
I’m waiting impatiently for their 5g to be turned on here so I can upgrade,
The question is what will real world speeds be , especially after 5g is widespread and you share the capacity with more people.
My 12 month fixed period is ending and I am waiting for Three to turn 5G on here too.
Just before Christmas, the BBC did publish this article/video about 5G in London. Three broadband is towards the end of the video 3m26s.
As someone who relies on 4G for home broadband I too am in the queue.
I can’t wait 
Will probably need a new router though 
Edit
Found the form to register interest so they’ll notify me when it’s in my area.
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