Lebara Mobile 5G Coverage

Last updated 6th February, 2026

Lebara offers 5G using Vodafone’s network, so it’s got coverage in all the same places. That means you can get Lebara 5G in parts of hundreds of UK towns and cities at the time of writing.

Lebara launched its 5G service in August 2021, and it offered partial coverage in at least 124 UK locations on day one, but as Vodafone’s 5G coverage grows, so will Lebara’s.

Below you’ll find all the information you should need on Lebara’s 5G network, including the major places where 5G is currently available, the speeds you can expect, the spectrum it has access to, and how it stacks up to the UK’s other 5G networks.

Lebara Coverage

Lebara’s 5G network is available in a lot of places, but not everywhere, so to see whether you can get Lebara 5G where you are, just enter your postcode in our coverage checker at the top of this page.

It will then show Lebara’s 5G coverage in the area, along with its 4G and voice coverage, and a comparison to the coverage from the UK’s other networks.

And this information is as up to date as possible, because we use real-time data from the UK’s mobile networks and independent sources.

How does Lebara's 5G coverage compare to others?

We keep track of which networks offer 5G coverage across 120 major UK towns and cities, so you can see at a glance how they compare in key locations.

Lebara Mobile has the same number of 5G locations as Vodafone below:

However, some of these locations will only have partial 5G coverage at the time of writing, so a tick in the chart below simply means that a network has some 5G coverage there, not that it will be available everywhere.

The latest places that Lebara (via Vodafone) has brought 5G to (as of February 2026) include Canterbury, Chelmsford, Colchester, Crewe, Exeter, Ipswich, Peterborough, and Taunton.

4G coverage

As well as 5G coverage, Lebara also offers widespread 4G coverage, which you’ll be able to access in places that don’t yet have 5G.

Below you can see an indication of how much 4G coverage Lebara has, and how it compares to other UK networks.

How fast is Lebara’s 5G network?

Lebara hasn’t talked about specific 5G speeds, but Vodafone claims to offer average 5G speeds of 150-200Mbps, topping out at over 1Gbps, and as Lebara uses the same infrastructure its speeds may well be similar.

We also have some independent data on Vodafone’s speeds, which points to the network having an average 5G download speed of 138.7Mbps (according to 2024 data from Opensignal) and a median 5G download speed of 163.8Mbps based on 2025 data from RootMetrics.

There’s also data in an Ookla report from the second half of 2025, which put Vodafone’s median 5G download speed at 129.78Mbps and its 90th percentile 5G download speed at 364.30Mbps.

Vodafone’s top speed meanwhile might be around 545.6Mbps, based on older 2020 data from RootMetrics.

Again, this is all for Vodafone rather than Lebara, but the two are likely to have similar results.

Latency

Latency is the amount of time a network takes to respond to a data request on your phone, and Lebara hasn’t talked about this either, but based on 2023 data from Speedtest, Vodafone’s median 5G latency is 31ms.

That’s unloaded, but for loaded latency (that being the latency when the connection is under heavy use), a 2025 Ookla report found that Vodafone’s was 449.16ms, and that’s the second best on test.

Unlike speeds, lower numbers are better here, but as with speeds, Lebara’s latency is likely to be similar to Vodafone’s.

For reference, 4G latency averages around 30-50ms most of the time, so we’re seeing slight improvements on 5G, but nothing dramatic yet – expect 5G latency to further improve over time though.

What frequencies/bands does Lebara use?

Lebara uses the same 5G frequencies as Vodafone, meaning the 40GHz, 26GHz, 3.4Ghz and 3.6GHz bands, as the chart above shows.

These are higher frequency than those the network uses for 4G, because high frequency bands are key to 5G – there’s generally more capacity available, allowing for higher speeds.

However, lower frequency spectrum can travel further and more easily pass through obstacles, so that can play a role as well.

Indeed, through its merger with Three, the combined VodafoneThree network also uses some 700MHz spectrum for 5G. Assuming Lebara has access to all of VodafoneThree’s spectrum, it has 2,030MHz of 5G spectrum to play with, which is more than the 1,920MHz that O2 and EE each have.

Ultimately the UK’s networks may gain access to addition 5G frequencies though at future 5G spectrum auctions.