Qualcomm announces addition of Category 9 Carrier Aggregation to Snapdragon 810 processor

Qualcomm has announced today that their Snapdragon 810 processor will be adding support for LTE category 9 Carrier Aggregation connectivity. The Category 9 capabilities have been validated in various tests with commercial network and test equipment companies, and the 810 processor has shown download speeds of up to 450 Mbps across three LTE carriers — making it the first Snapdragon processor to support Category 9 Carrier Aggregation.

The LTE-advanced modem is also backwards compatible with current technologies including GSM/EDGE, CDMA1x/EVDO, TD-SCDMA and WCDMA/HSPA+. Qualcomm says they expect the new hardware to be available to customers in early 2015.

source: androidcentral