UK's First 4G Service Arrives in 11 Cities

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Stan Schroeder
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UK's First 4G Service Arrives in 11 Cities
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UK mobile provider EE brought the country's first 4G service to 11 cities: London, Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield, Glasgow and Southampton.

The company also promises to add six more cities to this list by Christmas. Those cities include Belfast, Derby, Glasgow, Hull, Newcastle and Nottingham. EE plans to make its 4G service available to 98% of the population by the end of 2014.

EE promises speeds between 8 and 18 Mbps, but caps the data at 500MB for the entry-level, £36 per month tariff -- and that's in a 24-month plan. If that sounds low for LTE data transfer speeds, you're right, but customers hungry for more data can get 8GB for £56.00 a month.

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