{"id":16957,"date":"2018-09-11T13:10:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T12:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=16957"},"modified":"2018-09-11T13:24:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T12:24:36","slug":"ee-refarms-uk-3g-spectrum-into-ultrafast-4g-mobile-broadband-bands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/09\/ee-refarms-uk-3g-spectrum-into-ultrafast-4g-mobile-broadband-bands.html","title":{"rendered":"EE Refarm UK 3G Spectrum Bands into Ultrafast 4G Mobile Broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>) has today confirmed that they&#8217;ve begun the process of re-farming (converting) their existing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/3g\">3G<\/a> mobile services in the 2100MHz radio spectrum band, which means that they can instead be used to help boost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> data (Mobile Broadband) speeds and reliability.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At present the existing LTE-Advanced (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a>+) standard already supports <strong>Carrier Aggregation<\/strong> technology, which allows operators to combine spectrum from multiple different bands in order to improve data speeds (e.g. 2.6GHz, 1800MHz, 800MHz etc.). By re-farming the <strong>2100MHz<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/3g\">3G<\/a> band to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> they will thus be able to support <strong>Five Carrier Aggregation<\/strong> (5CA) or the combination of five different bands at once.<\/p>\n<p>Demand for mobile data is constantly on the rise and this is one way to help tackle that increase, which unsurprisingly means that the first locations to benefit will be &#8220;<em>hotspots<\/em>&#8221; of high demand (e.g. London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Exeter, Hull, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast).<\/p>\n<p>The operator plans to begin converting the 2100MHz band into 4G at more than 500 mobile towers over the next 6 months.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Marc Allera, CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s Consumer business, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our customers want a fast and reliable 4G connection, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re working to give them. We are using the investment we made in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/3g\">3G<\/a> spectrum nearly 15 years ago to give customers today a great experience with the latest smartphones on 4G, and build our foundation for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re constantly evolving, and the customer experience of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> will be dictated by the quality of the 4G network underneath.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many of the latest 4G Smartphones released during 2018, plus a few during 2017, can already support the use of 5CA. In theory this may also be enough to help support <strong>Gigabit<\/strong> (1000Mbps+) class LTE \/ 4G speeds, albeit only under ideal circumstances (most of the time users share capacity and so you&#8217;re unlikely to experience this in the real-world); plus you don&#8217;t strictly need 5CA for Gigabit speeds but it helps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> also hopes to become one of the first in the country to begin a limited commercial deployment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> or partial 5G services toward the end of 2019 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/05\/bt-and-ee-aiming-to-uk-launch-commercial-5g-mobile-in-2019.html\">here<\/a>), although the big roll-out won&#8217;t follow until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> has released all of the needed spectrum in 2020 (not to mention the small matter of limited hardware support). The first 5G services are also more likely to be fixed wireless links instead of mobile ones and large-scale trials should start soon.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the operator claims that 3G usage on their UK network is &#8220;<em>reducing rapidly<\/em>&#8220;, not least since customers are increasingly making more of their calls over 4G (VoLTE) or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wifi\">WiFi<\/a> (Wi-Fi Calling) based solutions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> makes no mention of Gigabit speeds in their update, thus the mention above is just based on our own understanding of the market and 4G network evolution.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile operator EE (BT) has today confirmed that they&#8217;ve begun the process of re-farming (converting) their existing 3G mobile services in the 2100MHz radio spectrum band, which means that they can instead be used to help boost 4G data (Mobile Broadband) speeds and reliability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,61,474,405,60],"class_list":["post-16957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-3g","tag-4g","tag-bt","tag-ee","tag-mobile-broadband"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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