EE, Qualcomm and Sony make a play for ‘Gigabit LTE’

At an event in Wembley stadium EE used its live network to demonstrate LTE on steroids using a Sony Xperia XZ Premium smartphone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip.
The term gigabit LTE is a bit of a stretch as the absolute maximum theoretical throughput possible with EE’s secret blend of 3 carrier aggregation, 4×4 MIMO and 256-QAM is still just short of that. And so it turned out on the day, with the highest demonstrated speed being in the 700-800 Mbps range.That’s still a he