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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