EE is predicting a record amount of data to be used during the festival, which will attract 200,000 people between June 26 and 30. The firm says it expects more than 70 terabytes to be used – the equivalent to 784 million Instagram posts. Acts performing at this year’s event include Stormzy, Kylie Minogue, Miley Cyrus, The Killers, The Cure and Janet Jackson.
As well as the 5G trial, EE has confirmed it will again have its Recharge Tent in place, offering free charging to all festival attendees. The firm will sell Juice Tube Power Bars for £20, which once out of battery can be swapped for free, once a day, for a fully charged one to allow mobile charging while on the site.
Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis said: ‘We’re extremely pleased to have EE back again, providing the best possible network for our rural site.
‘And it’s great that we’re going to be one of the first places in the UK to offer 5G.’
EE has already run a number of 5G trials and is one of a number of telecoms firms currently testing the technology across different parts of the UK ahead of the anticipated public rollout, due to start later in 2019.
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