Vodafone is one of the largest telecommunications groups in Romania, with extensive coverage throughout the country and an infrastructure commensurate with the price of the subscriptions that the operator sells in our country. Vodafone has been working for some time on a 5G network that it is slowly expanding, the project being most likely held instead of the postponement of the auction for 5G frequencies, but when it was officially presented, the operator presented a network capable of offering speeds of up to 1 Gbps.
Vodafone demonstrated then that it has a network capable of offering customers from all over Romania experiences of this kind and was the first telecommunications group to have such an achievement, in the meantime things were changing with its infrastructure. Although Vodafone demonstrated at the presentation of the 5G infrastructure in Romania that its network would be able to offer speeds of up to 1 Gbps, the official figures are halved and it only reaches up to 500 Mbps.
Vodafone: The Official Message It Sends to Romanian Customers
Vodafone tells its customers that in normal use they will get practically only half of the speed that Orange can offer its customers, up to 1.2 Gbps, and it is about equal to DIGI Romania, which promises to offer something similar, something confirmed in their tests . Practically, Vodafone's 5G network is capable of offering mobile internet speeds only slightly more than double those of 4G, and this is far from what the technology can offer, and perhaps from what many people expected.
Vodafone has a very good 4G network and offers high internet speeds for its customers through it, so some of those who will switch from 4G to 5G will probably not see much difference after the change. A customer who has speeds over 100 Mbps now, will not really see much after the transition to 5G unless he plays games intensively and wants low latencies, or watches 4K content on YouTube, or downloads large files, but in web browsing, or uses social networks, the difference will be almost zero.
Vodafone still continues to expand its 5G network in Romania and will probably offer better internet speeds, but for now they are limited to 500 Mbps for customers who choose RED subscriptions from the operator.
