EE launches new 4GEE Home Router on the UK’s fastest 4G network

• New 4GEE Home Router supports 4G+, offering download speeds up to 90Mbps
• 4GEE Home Router is ideal for customers in rural areas yet to receive superfast fixed-line broadband
• The 4GEE Home Router launches with a new 200GB plan – EE’s biggest ever data bundle

EE today launched a new 4GEE Home Router, its first own-branded Cat 7-enabled mobile Wi-Fi device, compatible with 4G+. Available immediately nationwide, the new and improved 4GEE Home Router is ideal for customers who live in areas with slow speed fixed-line access and provides a flexible and convenient alternative using the UK’s fastest 4G network.

The new 4GEE Home Router can connect up to 32 devices with real world download speeds of up to 90Mbps and is ready to go straight out of the box. The device is also portable, so can be easily turned off and on again should a customer move house.

The 4GEE Home Router allows customers to access EE’s superfast 4G network which currently extends to 83% of the UK’s landmass (equal to more than 99% of the UK population) and EE has an ambition to extend 4G to 95% geographic coverage by 2020. Meanwhile, EE’s 4G+ speeds are available in more than 150 towns and cities across the UK, and are as fast as Fibre Broadband.

According to OpenSignal*, EE has the UK’s fastest 4G, with average download speeds above 30Mbps. As a result, the 4GEE Home Router will help provide an alternative to many of the 904,000 homes** in the UK that receive broadband slower than 10Mbps.

Max Taylor, Managing Director of Marketing, EE, said: “Our new 4GEE Home Router provides customers with a great alternative to fixed-line broadband using the UK’s fastest and most reliable mobile network. It’s simple to set up and use straight out of the box, so it’s ideal for customers with slower fixed line speed or people who regularly move house and need instant Wi-Fi connectivity.”

The new 4GEE Home Router is EE’s first own-branded Cat 7 device allowing users to benefit from EE’s superfast 4G connectivity.

Pricing and availability

Available for order in-store, online and via EE telesales from today, the new 4GEE Home Router is available free on the following 18 month price plans:

Alternatively customers can purchase the device on pay as you go for an upfront cost of £129.99 with 10GB pre-loaded data,

All EE 4GEE Home Router customers also benefit from UK and Ireland call centres as well as data caps, ensuring they never go over their data allowance by accident.

For more information, please visit www.ee.co.uk/shop

Notes to editors

*https://opensignal.com/reports/2017/04/uk/state-of-the-mobile-network

**http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/ 

Additional 4GEE Home Router data add-ons for pay monthly are £10 for 5GB, £15 for 10GB and £20 for 20GB. Pay-as-you-go data add-ons are £15 for 5GB, £20 for 10GB and £25 for 20GB.

Specifications:

Dimensions: 146*146*32mm

Weight: 400g

LTE: Cat 7 – 300Mbps Maximum Download and 100Mbps Maximum Upload Speed

Platform: Qualcomm MDM9240

For more information on 4GEE Home and EE’s other home broadband devices, please visit www.ee.co.uk/

Review devices are available on request.

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EE, part of BT Group, is the largest and most advanced mobile communications company in the UK, delivering mobile and fixed communications services to consumers.

EE runs the UK's biggest and fastest mobile network, having pioneered the UK's first superfast 4G mobile service in October 2012 and was the first European operator to surpass 14 million 4G customers in December 2015. EE has more than 550 shops across the UK. EE's 4G coverage extends to more than 80% of the UK’s landmass (equal to more than 99% of the UK population) and EE has an ambition to extend 4G to 95% UK geographic coverage by 2020.

EE has received extensive independent recognition, including being ranked the UK's best overall network by RootMetrics®; Best Network at the 2015, 2016 and 2017 Mobile News Awards; Best Consumer Network at the 2015, 2016 and 2017 Mobile Industry Awards; as well as Fastest Network and Best Network Coverage at the 2017 uSwitch Mobile Awards.

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