News Coverage UK Prime Minister & Government Resignations

[Inspector Sands]

London’s 5G networks must be under tremendous strain today with all this TV coverage, almost all LiveU links I have seen today have been quite ropey.

It's somewhat outside of my area of expertise, but the UK doesn't really have 5G "standalone" networks yet and if you do a speedtest in a 5G area you'll find that the upstream isn't really any better than you get from a 4G only cell site. 

You'd think the popular locations, and especially Downing Street itself would have some sort of wired connection that's always available. Not a new idea, the BBC had a coax network covering all the important places in London like 50 years ago

Yes there is wired connectivity at Downing Street and other locations that are used often. The BBC, Sky and ITN all have plug in points in the street itself and that was extended inside for the new briefing room. Each will have several vision circuits out, as mentioned earlier they pool things like shots of the door and speeches like today's - they will have them on seperate vision circuits

College Green also has a lot of connectivity for the broadcasters it being next door to their Millbank facilities. 

There are plug-in points in all sorts of places, the High Court is one that gets used a lot. They aren't new but whereas they were wire based, then fibre. At one point they rolled out a load round London using CCTV circuits. They're all IP now so either have dedicated video and audio connections or they just encode everything and send it as digits. They also have WiFi so the reporter and crew can use that. I believe some have radiocam receivers built-in.

As for 5G standalone networks, they have been used here