So, seriously O2, what's the deal with 4G+

[viridis]

It's not officially on O2 but I've said before how every now and then I'm getting 4G+ on O2 on the Z5.
Since putting my sim back in tonight it's been solid 4G+ even when in poor signal.

[Cleoriff]

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@jonsie wrote:

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@MI5 wrote:
Phone's working well then jonsie

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Yep, quite impressed with it

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Crikey!! What's that speedtest you use @jonsie

[jonsie]

Just the ordinary Ookla speedtest.net that everyone uses.

[Cleoriff]

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@jonsie wrote:

Just the ordinary Ookla speedtest.net that everyone uses.

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It's just that yours doesn't have adverts. I can only get rid of those if I pay for the app?

[jonsie]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

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@jonsie wrote:

Just the ordinary Ookla speedtest.net that everyone uses.

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It's just that yours doesn't have adverts. I can only get rid of those if I pay for the app?

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Screenshots and links taken from the results tabs...don't get adverts showing there.

[Cleoriff]

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@jonsie wrote:

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@Cleoriff wrote:

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@jonsie wrote:

Just the ordinary Ookla speedtest.net that everyone uses.

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It's just that yours doesn't have adverts. I can only get rid of those if I pay for the app?

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Screenshots and links taken from the results tabs...don't get adverts showing there.

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Thanks for that ....

[gmarkj]

have to remember that for future use...

[Anonymous]

4G+ launched a little while ago and is growing at a rapid rate. It's proper name is Carrier Aggregation or CA for short essentially 4.5G in simple terms. It uses two different frequencies being O2's L800 and L1800MHz or LTE Band 20 and band 3. We have been refarming some of our 2G 1800MHz into 4G 1800MHz to provide additional capacity in high traffic demand and population areas as such in large towns and cities. As long as your phone supports it and your in range (not forgetting 1800MHz has less of a coverage footprint than 800MHz does) then your phone will connect to 4G+ but I believe the only phone at the moment to give a clear indication of this are the Sony's Z3 upwards I think but Z5'still are a definite. All the latest flagship handsets support it like the iPhone 6S Samsung S6 upwards and Sony phones. The other benefit is that for the first time ever iPhone 5 users can use 4G on our network as the iPhone 5 does support LTE band 3 (1800MHz) but doesn't support a large handful of other LTE bands such as band 20 (800MHz) so never originally worked on many networks including O2. Hope this helps guys! Any questions just let me know!

[viridis]

Z4 tablet and Z5 both showing this.
Thanks for the info.

[gmarkj]

have seen 4g+ a couple of times on the G4, but speed both times only been about 27Mb/s...

[Skyhawk1010]

Spent a bit of time in and around Cardiff City Centre recently.

No sign at all of any 4G+  

Not sure of there was any masts down or maintenance on the 24th and  25th October 2017.

But 4G coverage was also in very short supply.