Quality vs price

[Garnelpatricia]

I renewed my contract with EE. I also have a Lebara card for when I travel as roaming costs are free in the EU and India, a place that I visit often and intend to visit again. I’m in Bristol right now and I never in my life regretted the contract renewal like now. The Lebara network (uses Vodafone) 4G is substantially better than the EE 5G. I want to cry when I think of not only how poor the connections are but the price difference. 
Never again!

[bristolian]

Mobile contracts don't "renew" as such, but you might mean that you have re-contracted onto a new minimum-term.

I'm "only" a 4G user, but if you were to compare VF with EE using the same technologies, I would generally expect EE to outperform VF albeit with local variations.

Out of interest, where in Bristol are you? And are you using 5GSA or 5GNSA?

[Garnelpatricia]

Yes re-contracted. I’m in Kingswood at the moment but, it’s not the first time I swap connections from my EE to my Lebara. I actually live in Dorset which is even worse than here. As for SA or NSA I have no idea. 

[bristolian]

A 5G device/SIM combination should always fall back to 4G anywhere that 5G coverage is not usable. Are you finding that's not happening?