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du finishes 800MHz trial run to improve mobile coverage [Khaleej Times (United Arab Emirates)]
[July 31, 2014]

du finishes 800MHz trial run to improve mobile coverage [Khaleej Times (United Arab Emirates)]


(Khaleej Times (United Arab Emirates) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) The latest field test successfully demonstrated the LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation between two LTE frequency bands, namely 800Mhz and 1800Mhz frequencies.

Du, the Middle East's fastest growing telecommunications service provider, on Wednesday announced successful field testing for LTE-A Carrier Aggregation between the 800MHz band and the 1800MHz band, a new mobile broadband technology that is aimed at providing greater speed and reliability to mobile subscribers across the UAE.



This builds on du's achievement earlier this year of the company more than doubling its LTE footprint in the UAE in 2014 compared to 2012, and is yet another step in du's continuous efforts to offer best-in-class network technology to its customers Coordinated in partnership with Huawei — a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider — the carrier aggregation technology was tested on du's 4G LTE mobile network. The adoption of LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation solutions can ultimately help provide du customers with greater access to high-speed 4G LTE mobile broadband services across more locations in UAE while significantly improving indoor coverage. The latest field test successfully demonstrated the LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation between two LTE frequency bands, namely 800Mhz and 1800Mhz frequencies.

"Offering innovative and class-leading customer experience means the most to us and utilising the 800MHz band to provide 4G-LTE mobile broadband services to the public is a pivotal technology vehicle we are planning to use to further enhance the user experience and significantly extend our state-of-the art 4G-LTE network coverage to a larger section of du customers," Saleem Al Balooshi, executive vice-president of Network Development and Operation, du, said.


It is noteworthy to mention that in the TRA's mobile networks benchmarking survey on quality of service (QoS) in 2013, du leads on several key performance indicators. According to telecom experts at Analysys Mason, in 2014 it is expected that more operators will deploy LTE-A carrier aggregation worldwide with early tests enabling operators to bind separate spectrum channels together to create larger channels and faster wireless services, as well as reduce operational expenditure from running multiple networks.

"Building upon our continuous success, we are further enhancing our lead in the mobile broadband services and we are very thankful to the TRA for allowing us to utilise the 800MHz band in these field trials." Al Balooshi said.

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