E-UTRA
User Equipment (UE) categories
3GPP Release 8 defines five LTE user equipment categories depending on maximum peak data rate and MIMO capabilities support. With 3GPP Release 10, which is referred to as LTE Advanced, three new categories have been introduced, and four more with 3GPP Release 11.

E-UTRA

Section Title: User Equipment (UE) categories
Table Section Text: 3GPP Release 8 defines five LTE user equipment categories depending on maximum peak data rate and MIMO capabilities support. With 3GPP Release 10, which is referred to as LTE Advanced, three new categories have been introduced, and four more with 3GPP Release 11.

User equipment Category	Max. L1 data rate Downlink (Mbit/s)	Max. number of DL MIMO layers	Max. L1 data rate Uplink (Mbit/s)	3GPP Release

NB1	0.68	1	1.0	Rel 13

M1	1.0	1	1.0

0	1.0	1	1.0	Rel 12

1	10.3	1	5.2	Rel 8

2	51.0	2	25.5

3	102.0	2	51.0

4	150.8	2	51.0

5	299.6	4	75.4

6	301.5	2 or 4	51.0	Rel 10

7	301.5	2 or 4	102.0

8	2,998.6	8	1,497.8

9	452.2	2 or 4	51.0	Rel 11

10	452.2	2 or 4	102.0

11	603.0	2 or 4	51.0

12	603.0	2 or 4	102.0

13	391.7	2 or 4	150.8	Rel 12

14	391.7	8	9,585

15	750	2 or 4	226

16	979	2 or 4	n/a

17	25,065	8	n/a	Rel 13

18	1,174	2 or 4 or 8	n/a

19	1,566	2 or 4 or 8	n/a

Sentence(s)

EUTRAN has download rates of 299.6 Mbit/s and 150.8 Mbit/s.

final_sentence: EUTRAN has download rates of 299.6 Mbit/s and 150.8 Mbit/s.