Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and Hong Kong-based telecom company China Mobile Communications Corporation have announced the testing of the world's first uplink carrier aggregation (CA) over Jiangsu Mobile's network.

Huawei and China Mobile said the test improved the upload data rate by 180 per cent.

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Increasing uplink speed will provide consumers the ability to upload high quality videos, which will definitely boost the performance of telemedicine, video conferencing and video surveillance.

"Uplink CA is a key LTE-Advanced technology and can dramatically increase uplink data rate," said Huawei.

"Practical applications include but not limited to pictures and video sharing by individual users, as well as video surveillance, telemedicine, and shoot-and-transmit for enterprise users."

The Chinese telecom company said the deployment of its uplink CA solution doesn't require any additional equipment, except for a simple software upgrade.

Before deploying networks that can handle uplink carrier aggregation, mobile devices and infrastructure need to be upgraded first, according to a report.

Carrier aggregation is currently being used only to increase downlink speeds. Reports claim 49 operators had already launched carrier aggregation with download speeds between 100 Mbps and 300 Mbps in 31 countries.

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