Singtel achieves 1.5Gbps peak LTE speeds using unique five-carrier aggregation setup

Singtel has announced that it has achieved peak LTE speeds of 1.5Gbps using a unique five-carrier aggregation setup. This speed is officially the fastest in Asia and 50 percent faster than the prevailing 1Gbps speed.

Singtel says that it will gradually deploy the new speed across the island as more spectrum bands are allocated for the LTE network. Smartphones supporting 1.5Gbps speeds are scheduled to be launched in 2019.

The enhanced network speed was achieved in collaboration with Ericsson with a unique carrier aggregation of five carriers, which boosts network bandwidth. A combination of two 1800 MHz frequencies, together with 2100 MHz, 2600 MHz and TDD 2500 MHz spectrum bands and technologies such as FDD & TDD, 256QAM and 4X4 MIMO were used to achieve the peak speed of 1.5Gbps.

According to Singtel, once the new speed is introduced to the consumer network, customers will be able to download a two-hour 4K video in just eight minutes.