Carrier Aggregation |Double Up your Speeds| How?

Hey Everyone, today I am going to show you a crazy technology. This tech will increase your speeds a lot. The tech we’re going to explain today is Carrier Aggregation. Let’s start with the basic definition of Carrier Aggregation.

You might get that thing in a notice that Even while receiving strong signals the Internet speeds were very low.

So all the users think that even after receiving full signals, why the speed is slow? This is the concept in the mind of all users. But this concept is different from than actual concept. To give an example, If you move closer to the Wi-Fi router, you’ll get full signals. But the speeds you’re going to receive were very slow. This happens because you’ll receive the speeds according to the speed provided by ISP. As well as the best possible hardware you’ve.

This same concept complies with the cell towers. But in the cell towers, if the cell tower has many users, then there’ll be a huge decrease in the data speeds. To fix this, brands introduce this technology namely Carrier Aggregation.

What is Carrier Aggregation?

In a Carrier Aggregated network, the cellular brands combine multiple bands in a single channel. And transfer them to the supported devices. For Example, If a city is having a very high density of population. Because of this, there’ll be a huge demand for the Internet. In this condition, cellular brands have an option to use Carrier Aggregation. They combine their all bands in a single channel. By this method, all the users will receive some boost in their speeds. (If their hardware supports it). In this, if a user has a Carrier Aggregation supported device. Then sometimes he’ll notice 4G+ or LTE+ or LTE-A near his network signals in his smartphone.

Meaning of 4G+, LTE-A

LTE-A means LTE-Advanced. 4G+ means your device does support CA. Your operator also supports CA. And because you’re not receiving fast speeds, then the operator combines the cellular bands. And pushes them in a single channel to your smartphone.

But this does not mean that if you getting 4G+ then you’ll receive ultra-fast internet speeds. If you’re getting 4G+ this means this tech is working but the speeds you’ll receive don’t guarantee.

Parties Involved in Carrier Aggregation

The CA involves three parties to function this properly:

1. Telecom operator
2. Our Smartphone’s chipset/processor
3. OS of Smartphone

When all these parties loops, then no one will stop your Smartphone to function in CA. But there are some Smartphone manufacturers which have CA supported processor in their Smartphone. Even the network operator does support CA. But these manufacturers lock the CA manually in their UI.

As we can see almost all smartphones above Rs.15,000 do support CA. But when we talk about smartphones below Rs.15,000 they’re having very poor condition. Even if their chipset support CA, but the OS and UI disable that feature for them. This might be due to if they’ve to pay some royalty to use this function.

All the processors in Snapdragon’s 600, 700,800 series do support CA. Also, the MediaTek P, G, Dimensity series supports CA. In IOS all the iPhone 6s or above devices supports CA.

Multiple types of Carrier Aggregation

We all know, that all the network bands have different frequencies. And as the much more bands connect the name of CA changes. For Example, if 2 bands connect this means 2CA. 3 bands mean 3CA and up to 5CA. And the maximum frequency is up to 1000Mhz

Telecom Operators in CA

When we talk about Telcos in CA, the Jio enables CA in all the 5 bands of it. Airtel enables CA is only 3 bands out of 6 they have.  V! enables CA in only one band, probably they call it GIGAnet?

Carrier Aggregation depends on locations

The CA mostly depends upon the area. If your operator supports CA, then it depends on different areas in different circles areas. In this case, it is safe to say that your device, location telco support the CA. Even then you’ll not receive faster speeds. This happens because your network operator does not activate this service in your area.

How you’ll know that your device does support CA?

• First method- You can search on google if your device supports CA.
• Second method-
  • Download the NetMonster from the play store.

• Turn on your Internet connection.
  • Open the NetMonster app.
  • In this, you’ll notice that there are two bands.

• This means yes your device does support carrier aggregation.
  • But if your area does not have CA, even if your device supports it. Then you’ll not be able to track CA.

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