Nokia claims 3x carrier aggregation first with a bit of help from MediaTek

Just when you thought carrier aggregation couldn’t get any better Nokia and MediaTek have only gone and added another carrier to the mix.
In this context, carrier means a distinct chunk of radio frequency. Ideally what you want is one big contiguous chunk (a fat pipe), but an alternative is to cobble together a couple of them to achieve a similar outcome. That’s what this announcement concerns, with three bits of spectrum used to deliver 3.2 Gigabits per second of lovely 5G from a ba