14 DAY TRIAL // Today, Everything Everywhere became the first wireless services provider in the UK to have 4G LTE connectivity available for its users around the country.
The company will call its 4G service EE and will launch it on the 1800 MHz spectrum, Everything Everywhere unveiled at the London's Science Museum today.
Moreover, the wireless carrier unveiled that there would be four pilot cities set to receive the new service now, with a total of 16 areas expected to benefit from the connectivity before Christmas.
Some of these markets include Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Derby, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Newcastle, Sheffield, and Southampton. One third of UK’s population will benefit from the advanced data speeds, the carrier notes.
The new network is expected to provide data transfer speeds that are up to five times faster than those available at the moment in the UK on 3G networks.
“We already have the UK’s biggest 3G network. Soon we will launch the UK’s first mobile 4G network together with Fibre Broadband,” the carrier notes on its new website.
“We’re launching the next generation mobile network that gives you superfast internet speeds on your mobile, tablet or laptop. We like to call it 4GEE.”
A wide range of devices will be available for users interested in taking advantage of the connectivity, the wireless carrier also unveiled.
EE will launch LTE-enabled smartphones such as the Samsung Galaxy S III LTE, HTC One XL, Huawei Ascend P1 LTE, along with “superfast 4G Mobile WiFi units and dongles” coming from Huawei.
Additionally, the wireless carrier confirmed the upcoming availability of the Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 exclusively on its LTE network.
Olaf Swantee, EE's CEO also announced that other devices are set to be announced in the near future. The upcoming new Apple iPhone, long rumored to pack 4G LTE connectivity, might be among these, rumor has it.