EE LTE-Advanced network to be powered by Huawei

Chinese telecom equipment vendor Huawei will be powering UK mobile operator EE LTE-Advanced network.

Huawei in a statement said 4G LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) network is available in Tech City, a business cluster in London. The service will be expanded across London throughout 2014, delivering mobile broadband speeds of up to 300 Mb/s.

The speeds and capacity of the network are enabled by Carrier Aggregation (CA), a feature of LTE-A, which allows next-generation of wireless broadband network with around twice the speed possible through most current LTE mobile networks.

EE on Tuesday said it will start an official customer trial in early December, offering mobile Wi-Fi in offices in the Tech City area.

Olaf Swantee, chief executive officer of EE, said the new network can meet the future demands of increasingly data-hungry consumers and businesses, and enable completely new ways of doing business.

The core technologies of the LTE-A platform Huawei deployed for EE include CA, which allows for the full utilization of spectrum resources across multiple frequency bands by bringing together 20MHz of 1800MHz spectrum and 20MHz of 2.6GHz spectrum. CA ensures backwards compatibility with LTE to facilitate a smooth, seamless migration.

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