Monaco Telecom announces 1Gbps LTE network upgrade

(Telecompaper) Monaco Telecom announced that its LTE service is now capable of offering a peak theoretical speed of 1 Gbps, after deploying a core network upgrade and a cloud RAN solution developed by its technology partner Huawei. The service relies on four-channel carrier aggregation, using 2.6 GHz, 1.8 GHz and 800 MHz spectrum, and is compatible with Category 16 LTE handsets supporting 4×4 MIMO. The first smartphones able to deliver the increased bandwidth should be on the market by the