Hello and welcome to the show!
My name is Alex and this is TechFlow!
Before I get on to the topic of this video, hold up a minute: Just take a look at where
we are.
Just take this in - we're at the Wembley stadium!
EE have invited us down here to talk to us about some incredible new technology to do
with mobile devices and speed tests and getting data to your phones.
This is an absolutely incredible opportunity, it's gonna be an amazing video, we're gonna
do loads of speed tests - let's get straight into this!
So as you can see here, we're here at the Wembley stadium.
Now this is a massive stadium - it can hold 90,000 people.
And I'm here in the EE booth and we're gonna talk about mobile technology and getting data
to your phone because it's something that I absolutely love, like doing speed tests;
all of you guys know on the channel that I absolutely love getting internet and being
connected all the time.
It's an absolutely awesome opportunity to be here with EE.
So let's talk about what EE and their upcoming tech and how they're going to help us get
really fast speeds (this is what you have to bear in mind); really fast speeds even
in really densely populated areas like where we are right now at Wembley stadium.
Imagine if there's a big game on - this stadium is full.
Usually, your phone's not going to work because everyone's trying to get online on their phones.
EE are trying to tackle that and they want to keep you online at blazing fast speeds.
So this is how I can understand it so far: So you've got your phone - I've got my phone
in my pocket, an iPhone 6S plus, right.
And all around the globe there's masts, right, and your phone is trying to capture a signal
from these masts, right.
But EE has access to most of the spectrum so with EE, your phone is going to have access
to all of this spectrum and it's going to have a greater chance, in a nutshell, of staying
online.
And then it gets even more technical than that - there's two terms called CAT 6 and
CAT 9 and as far as I can understand it, with CAT 6 it merges two bands together on band
merging so it merges two spectrums together on band merging and then there's CAT 9 which
merges three bands together.
So my iPhone 6S Plus is a CAT 6 phone - it can merge two bands together.
Now this, this is an HTC 10 - this is a CAT 9 phone.
This can merge three bands together for some blazing speeds so I think you can get, like,
at tops, around 100-150 Mbps on a CAT 6 phone but with this you can get, like, 350 Mbps
- almost 400.
We're going to do some speed tests in a little bit and show you guys because I absolutely
love doing speed tests.
But that is a little bit of background at how all this stuff works and EE are really
trying to keep everyone online in densely populated areas at blazing fast speeds.
And you guys, I think you're gonna be blown away when we do these speed tests because
it is literally the fastest speeds I've ever seen in my life on a phone.
Right, I'm here in the EE corporate box and this is the HTC 10 - a CAT 9 enabled device
and we're gonna run a speed test and see what we get.
I've just pressed "Start" and it's gonna find the server.
It's doing a "ping" test now - 18 ping.
And it's literally pulling 370 Mbps down.
That is just incredible for a phone!
And that's the whole point with this - like, why buy a new device but then not take advantage
of a network, a really powerful network, with your new device?
And I think that's what EE are really trying to tackle here.
So as you can see, that was absolutely amazing speeds on the CAT 9 device but I thought that
we may as well do one on my phone as well - this is a CAT 6 device and we'll just run
the test again here.
We're just going to grab a "ping" of 29 and then as you can see, these speeds are still
absolutely incredible, like, you just can't complain with that sort of speed coming down
to your device.
So, I want to say a massive, massive "thank you" to EE for bringing me and us guys down
here to the Wembley stadium to have a first hands on look at this new CAT 9 technology
and the thing is, it's important to tell you guys that CAT 9 is literally only available
on EE and the way I look at it, if you're gonna be getting, like, a new phone, like,
let's say one of the flagship phones - I know the new iPhone 7 is coming out, hopefully
- I literally cannot wait for that - if you're gonna spend that much money on a flagship
device why not give it the best opportunity, why not give it the best reliability and have
it on the most powerful network where you can literally be online surrounded by 90,000
people and still be connected at ultra fast speeds?
It's just incredible technology and EE have really, in my eyes, taken the crown
for mobile connection - absolutely incredible!
So thank you to EE for bringing us this opportunity.
My name's been Alex, you guys have been awesome and I'll catch you in the next one!
Adios!