EE, one of the UK’s most advanced communications company, has announced it will double its current 4G speeds for its customers. They plan to launch the faster network in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, and Sheffield by summer 2013.
In order to increase speeds to what they are calling “4GEE“, they will need to increase both their network’s capacity and coverage. EE will double the amount of 1800MHz spectrum capacity bandwidth from 10MHz to 20MHz. According to EE’s Chief Executive Officer, Olaf Swantee, “We are ensuring that the UK remains at the forefront of the digital revolution. Having already pioneered 4G here, we’re now advancing the country’s infrastructure again with an even faster, even higher-capacity network, and at no extra cost to our customers.“
EE’s ambition is to stay one step ahead of the competition and always offer the fastest network in the UK. EE, which is targeting more than one million customers by Dec 2013, estimates an increase in network traffic of 750% over the next three years. Increasing their 4G network to lab speeds of up to 130Mbps will help them to meet demands of their ever growing customer base.
In addition to increased speeds and bandwidth, EE plans to make more investments and improvements to its core network to enable a wide range of new services for its customers such as voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi), and video and voice calls over 4G/LTE (VoLTE).
Source: EE
Come comment on this article: UK’s EE Doubling 4G Network Speeds in 10 Locations