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gt98

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Sorry if this is answered elsewhere, but I'm new to all this and trying to learn more about MNO deployments.

Where I am based, the vast majority of EE LTE sites broadcast Band 3 only. In my experience EE Band 3 is shocking indoors...

By comparison, the 3 sites (same physical locations mostly) broadcast LTE on 1, 3, 20 and Vodafone are using a mix of 1, 7, 8, 20.

I know EE has spectrum in band 1, 7 and 20 & that they mostly use 20 as a rural coverage layer.

But does anyone know why they don't vary their bands more? I thought using MIMO, phones can bond bands to increase throughput?
 
EE has 90 MHz of band 3 spectrum so you'll find that they use 20Mhz and 10Mhz slices of Band 3 allowing CA with 2x2 MiMo if you're lucky.

Where I used to live they had 1,3,7 and 20 on one mast with the band 3 having two carriers.
 
EE has 90 MHz of band 3 spectrum so you'll find that they use 20Mhz and 10Mhz slices of Band 3 allowing CA with 2x2 MiMo if you're lucky.

Where I used to live they had 1,3,7 and 20 on one mast with the band 3 having two carriers.
Ah, I forgot that CA works in that way...

You are correct, my nearest mast has 3 x B3 20Mhz each one paired with 3 x B3 10Mhz slices.

In this case, would an extra band not be beneficial?

The reason I'm interested is that this site has been upgrade to one of the new style monopoles (shared with 3) and EE only have B3 LTE, where as 3 have 1 and 3 LTE + n78 5G. Wonder why EE isn't doing any real upgrades at the same time?
 
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It can be, especially the B1. BT have taken the reins with EEs spending, EE just doesn't have the funds available to them for upgrades due to BT not allowing EE to dip into the coffers.
 
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