EE’s investment in building a 4G network capable of supporting the amazing appetite for data at Glastonbury Festival includes:
Adding a sixth temporary mobile antenna unit to the network to improve coverage and increase capacity
Identifying optimum locations for all six mobile sites to deliver 4G coverage to all areas of the festival
Reviewing congestion graphs from 2015 to optimise capacity for the 2016 event
Tripling the 4G spectrum capacity, adding 35MHz of 2600MHz spectrum to the existing 20MHz of 1800MHz spectrum
Implementing 4G Calling (VoLTE) to allow phone calls to be carried over the 4G network
Implementing state-of-the-art six sector antenna technology to optimise capacity
Deploying the full EE portfolio of 2G and 3G spectrum
Increasing backhaul capacity to provide an optimum data experience
More at:
http://ee.co.uk/our-company/newsroom...-15-terabytes-
Great news about them tripling capacity! It was really congested most of the time last year.