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Mobile network operator Three UK has announced its commitment to pump more than £2bn into an infrastructure upgrade that will prepare it to deliver ‘market leading’ 5G services to customers in 2019. Those services will include wireless home broadband, via Three’s UK Broadband-operated subsidiary Relish.
So far, Three has focused spending on the following areas:
* Acquired the UK’s leading 5G spectrum portfolio
* Signed an agreement for the rollout of new cell site technology to prepare major urban areas for the rollout of 5G devices, as well as enhance the 4G service
* Built a super high-capacity dark fibre network, which connects 20 new, energy efficient and highly secure data centres
* Deployed a world-first 5G-ready, fully integrated cloud native core network in new data centres, which at launch will have an initial capacity of 1.2TB/s, a three-fold increase from today’s capacity, and which can scale further, cost effectively and rapidly
* Rolled out carrier-aggregation technology on 2,500 sites in the busiest areas, improving speeds for customers