EE launches fastest 4G to date

EE has announced that it will today switch on the fastest 4G mobile network in the world.

The network – capable of reaching 300Mbps speeds – follows EE’s internal analysis of consumer and business trends, which forecasts a data-usage rise of 750% over the next three years.

It will initially cover London’s Tech City and will be rolled out across London throughout 2014. In December, local companies from the Tech City area will be selected to become exclusive EE partners, allowing them access to the service before it becomes commercially available when compatible devices launch from mid-2014.

“[EE’s] existing 4G network delivers incredible mobile data speeds and covers millions of people across the country, but we never stand still. We know that mobile data usage is going to keep increasing, and rapidly so,” said EE’s CEO Olaf Swantee.

“Our analysts predict that data usage will grow significantly over the next three years […] The network we’re switching on today in Tech City uses the spectrum that we acquired in the Ofcom spectrum auction earlier this year, and is the first part of an infrastructure that can meet the future demands of an increasingly data-hungry nation.”