e UAE, the flagship telecom arm of global technology group e , announced a major performance milestone in its live 5.5G network with the commercial deployment of 4-Carrier Aggregation 4-CA combining Frequency Division Duplex FDD and Time Division Duplex TDD spectrum - the first deployment of its kind in the region.
4-carrier aggregation allows a smartphone to use four parts of the same network at the same time, delivering faster and more reliable performance. By combining these channels, the phone can download and upload data more quickly and smoothly, even in busy areas. This enhancement delivers peak downlink speeds that exceeds 4 Gbps on supported smartphones while maintaining consistent performance through FDD's wider coverage resilience, reinforcing real-world user experience across diverse environments.
The innovative FDD-TDD multicarrier integration significantly boosts network capacity and efficiency by leveraging FDD spectrum for broad, reliable coverage and TDD spectrum for high-throughput capacity - enabling superior performance for bandwidth-intensive applications such as 8K streaming, cloud gaming, and advanced enterprise connectivity. Achieving this on a commercially available smartphone confirms strong ecosystem readiness and accelerates the path to mass-market adoption of 5.5G-Advanced capabilities.
