Three UK to Boost 4G Mobile Broadband Speeds by 50 Percent

Mobile operator Three UK has announced that their 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband speeds are now being boosted by up to 50% across the United Kingdom.

The extra performance is coming as a result of the additional 5MHz that has just been added to the operators existing 1800MHz spectrum band. The new capacity has already been made available to their sites in Northern England, the West Midlands, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Deployments are on-going and should eventually reach the rest of the UK.

Bryn Jones, CTO of Three, said:

“Many of our 4G customers will already be enjoying a faster, more reliable experience at no extra cost. Our network processes a huge amount of data and we will continue to work hard on providing them with a service that delivers the reliability and speed that they need.“

Apparently the operator’s data network carried 42% of all UK mobile data traffic in the year-ending March 2015 and the average data usage per customer reached 4.65GB (GigaBytes) per month in June 2015.