EE Launch UK's First Commercial Consumer 5G+ Network Slicing via Fast Lane

EE touts commercial 5G network slicing

EE launched what it claimed is the UK’s first commercial 5G network slice offering for consumers and small businesses, aimed at maintaining connectivity during periods of high network demand. The service dubbed Fast Lane is designed to anticipate network congestion by shifting eligible users onto a dedicated slice of EE’s 5G+ network when demand is expected to rise, such as during rush hours and major events. It will enable users to continue acc…

EE Launch UK's First Commercial Consumer 5G+ Network Slicing via Fast Lane

Much we first previewed on Monday of this week (here), EE Mobile (BT) has today officially launched their new ‘Fast Lane‘ feature, which is described as being the UK’s first commercial consumer implementation of Network Slicing technology on a 5G+ (5G Standalone) mobile broadband network (i.e. giving customers data traffic prioritisation in busy areas). Network slicing is a feature of the latest end-to-end 5G Standalone (5G+) based mobile broadb…