UAE: Internet speed could soon be 3 times faster for du users with new tech rollout

One of the UAE's leading carriers du has announced that it started rolling out multi-carrier aggregation technologies — that can make internet speeds up to three times faster for its users in the country.

The new innovation involves aggregating three carriers of 100 Mhz each within C-Band and 2.6 Ghz band, du said. The aggregation of carriers will mean that the network will be capable of delivering 3 times data speeds than what is available currently to du users.

The mainstay of the multi-carrier aggregation will be home wireless services, which du introduced to the UAE market in 2021 and instantly became a hit and garnered thousands of users in a short time.

As the next phase of the wireless home broadband service — which can support futuristic uses requiring high bandwidth and low latency such as artificial intelligence, 8K video streaming, metaverse and UHD cloud gaming — du has initiated this multi-carrier aggregation deployment.

"We anticipate that in the near future, average bandwidth demands of users will increase multi-folds. Multi-carrier aggregation is a proven way to enhance the peak and average throughputs of wireless networks and thus we embarked on this journe," said Saleem Al Blooshi, chief technology officer of du.

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