Glasgow public and private 5G performance dataset (2025): acquisition and comparative analysis

Ahren Hart; Hamish Sturley; Paul  Mclean; Pablo Salva Garcia; Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir

doi:10.1038/s41597-026-07600-w

Glasgow public and private 5G performance dataset (2025): acquisition and comparative analysis

Ahren Hart^*
, Hamish Sturley
, Paul Mclean
, Pablo Salva Garcia
, Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The rollout of 5G promised gigabit speeds and sub-10 ms latency for smart cities and IoT, but real-world urban performance in the United Kingdom remains poorly documented, with few openly accessible multi-provider datasets at neighbourhood resolution. We present a publicly released dataset of 720 outdoor 5G measurements collected across 15 Glasgow neighbourhoods over three consecutive days (6– 8 April 2025), using all four major UK operators (EE, Vodafone, O2, Sky Mobile) and two consumer devices (Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra and Google Pixel 9 Pro). This dataset was collected as part of the Ayrshire 5G Innovation Region (5GIR) project to serve as a real-world urban benchmark, providing a reference for what mature public 5G performance looks like in a comparable Scottish city, against which future Ayrshire public connectivity can be assessed.

Original language	English
Journal	Scientific Data
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07600-w
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2 Jun 2026

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SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

5G dataset
public 5G performance
private 5G networks
Glasgow (Scotland)
mobile network measurements
open dataset

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