Most advice on film location connectivity is a technology explainer — bonded 4G, satellite, pick one. That's not what determines whether it holds up on a shoot day. Here's what UK production companies need to know about reliability, upload speeds, and who's accountable when something drops.

UK studio space has roughly doubled in five years — but the network underneath a lot of that new capacity is still built for a smaller footprint and an older production era. Here's why permanent studio infrastructure is a different problem to hired location WiFi, and what's actually changed in what a studio's network needs to carry.