(11 February 2015)
"...EE (UK), announcing a £1.5 billion investment in its network over the next three years, EE also says double-speed 4G and 4G voice calls will reach most of the population by 2017....
The company, which is being bought by BT in a £12.5 billion deal,
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today laid out its plans for the next couple of years <===.
The short version is that EE wants to bring faster speeds to more people. The demand is partly driven by the explosion in Web-connected devices: everything from tablets and laptops to dongles and smart home devices -- basically, anything that talks to the Web that isn't a phone.
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That includes EE's own EE TV set-top box and Buzzard dongle for your car..."
Source:
http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/ee-will-sell-as-many-tablets-dongles-and-smart-devices-as-it-does-phones-by-2017/
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11th February 2015 – EE is today committing to invest £1.5 billion between now and 2017 as part of a new manifesto “
Signalling the Future”, designed to tackle the UK’s changing digital infrastructure needs, and lay the foundations for the UK to be a global leader. In this second phase of its network strategy, EE will focus on extending its number one rated 4G network to more than 99% of the population and 90% of the UK’s geography.
"...Connected Home is about bringing the world into consumers’ homes, making people smarter. A great
example of this is
EE TV, which has been a spectacular success since launch, and brings the mobile
experience into the home...."