Gigabit LTE: Global Status – March 2019

Gigabit LTE: At the end of February 2019, GSA has identified 100 operators in 59 countries or territories investing in all the three core LTE-Advanced features for Gigabit LTE (defined as Carrier Aggregation, 4×4 MIMO or higher, and 256QAM modulation in the downlink).

51 operators have deployed all three of these technologies and / or launched commercial services based on them.

Gigabit LTE does not always equal Gigabit speed. Some networks capable of delivering downlink speeds of 1 Gbps can do so without using all three key LTE-Advanced features

Some networks using all three features do not achieve 1 Gbps

The fastest networks in the GSA database are:

• KDDI, Swisscom, Turkcell:  1.2 Gbps
• China Unicom:  1.156 Gbps
• Bell Mobility:  1.15 Gbps
• 3 Hong Kong, Singtel:  1.1 Gbps
• Optus: 1.03 Gbps
• Vodafone Italy:  1.023 Gbps
• Telstra, Vodafone Germany, Vodafone Netherlands, HKT, Elisa, Ooredoo Qatar, Starhub, Dialog Axiata, AT&T Mobility, China Mobile Hong Kong, DNA, Telenor Denmark, TeliaSonera Denmark, Smartone, CYTA, Sprint:  1 Gbps

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