EE speed

Mobile phone operator EE announces faster 4G speeds.

It has recently been announced that 4G speeds across some areas of London will be boosted thanks to a slow moving roll-out of a new faster 4G service.

The mobile phone service operator EE is aiming to provide a quicker more robust 4G network to the whole of the capital by 2015.

The new service will be named “4G+” and will be hitting certain London streets in the next few weeks.

Roll out

The first areas in London which will experience the new 4G+ speed boost roll-out have been named as Old Street, Shoreditch, Southbank, Soho, Westminster and Kensington, which currently enjoy 4G’S current average speed of around 50Mbps. The whole of the UK’s capital should be covered by this new service early 2015.

The expected speed boost will be restricted to EE’s flagship smartphone models the Samsung Galaxy Alpha and the Note 4. These handsets are capable of being able to deal with data speeds of up to 150 Mbps thanks to their new sophisticated LTE Advanced radio transmitters and receivers, although it is being reported that a more realistic ‘real-world’of 90 Mbps will be achieved on a day-to-day basis.

Improved speed

These speeds are achievable thanks to EE harnessing its network’s duel frequencies of 1,800MHz and 2.6GHz bands, combining a certain part of the spectrum and thus ciphering 10MHz of bandwidth from each allowing for an additional 20MHz powerful data stream.

Nevertheless, EE customers not using its flagship-models have been assured by the provider that they too will see some improvement in data speeds thanks to the free-up of bandwidth created by the new powerful data stream for 4G+ customers.

As well as EE, Vodafone has a similar initiative with its 4.5G upgrade being made available to eligible customers in London, Manchester and Birmingham.

Core of the problem

Reportedly, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ users will not be able to access the faster speeds laid-on by EE due to technological complications. Apple’s new devices are fitted with radio transmitting and receiving equipment which will be capable of receiving the new 4G+ data but will not be capable processing it due to the way the iPhone partitions the data.

Ultimately, Apple’s hardware restrictions will continue to curb its ability to perform at the fastest speeds on a 4G+ network until a solution to the problem is found.

As always we will keep you up to date with all the developments with this 4G service as they break and don’t forget to join in on the conversation as well as follow us on Twitter and Facebook for all things Fortune Frenzy!

 



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