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EE Starts Rolling Out 400Mbps 4G+ in Major Cities

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EE, the UK’s largest mobile network operator and part of the BT Group, has deployed 4G+ network in Cardiff and the Tech City area of London and it plans to expand the service further to Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh city centres during 2017.

The Operator recently demonstrated live download speeds of 429Mbps in Cardiff city centre using Sony’s Xperia XZ Premium, which was launched on Friday 2 June.

The upgraded network can support peak speeds above 400Mbps with the right device, and customers connected to these sites should be able to consistently experience speeds above 50Mbps, said EE,

Sony’s Xperia XZ Premium is the UK’s first ‘Cat 16’ smartphone optimised for the EE network, and EE claims that it is the only mobile network upgrading its sites to be able to support the new device’s unique upload and download capabilities. All devices on the EE network will benefit from the additional capacity and technology that EE is building into its network.

The sites that are capable of delivering these maximum speeds are equipped with 30MHz of 1800MHz spectrum, and 35MHz of 2.6GHz spectrum. The 1800MHz carriers are delivered using 4x4 MIMO, which sends and receives four signals instead of just two, making the spectrum up to twice as efficient. The sites also broadcast 4G using 256QAM, or Quadrature Amplitude Modulation, which increases the efficiency of the spectrum.

Marc Allera, CEO, EE
What we’ve demonstrated live in Cardiff is more than ten times the average mobile download speed. We’re rolling out this new capability in Cardiff and London’s Tech City, and we’ll keep expanding to the busiest areas of the UK so that our customers always have a great connection to do the things they love.

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