04/06/2011
Light Reading
T-Mobile USA is bringing faster mobile broadband to 10 new towns and cities and promises that 140 million Americans in over 25 markets will get its 42Mbit/s update by mid-year.
The operator said Tuesday that it has switched on 21Mbit/s High-Speed Packet Access Plus (HSPA+) services, which it sells as “4G,” in 10 new [...]
10/05/2010
DigiTimes – Online
While mobile telecom carriers around the world have been troubled about much faster growing mobile Internet-access traffic than the corresponding increase in revenues due to existing charge rates without use limits, the service upgrade to HSPA+ or LTE (Long Term Evolution) is an occasion for mitigating the imbalance between online traffic and revenues [...]
09/27/2010
DigiTimes – Online
Taiwan 3G mobile telecom carrier Vibo is upgrading its core network from the existing 3G equipment supplied by Ericsson to HSPA+ (3.75G) equipment supplied by Nokia Siemens Networks, with completion scheduled for November 2010. The maximum download speed for mobile access to the Internet is expected to be hiked from 7.2Mbps at present [...]
12/17/2009
IDG – Online
The new hardware won’t be in service for another three to six months, Ericsson says
By Mikael Ricknäs | IDG News Service
Ericsson has demonstrated one part of the technology that will make speeds of up to 42 Mbps (bits per second) possible in 3G networks. However, a lot of work remains before services can [...]
12/16/2009
Giga Om Offices At Pier 38
BendBroadband, a Bend, Ore.-based cable operator, this morning launched a next-generation wireless broadband network that uses HSPA+ technology, thus becoming the first company in the U.S. to do so. T-Mobile USA has a trial network up and running in Philadelphia, though it has yet to launch a commercial service.
HSPA+ [...]
12/15/2009
EE Times Europe
LONDON — Wireless chip company ST-Ericsson NV (Geneva, Switzerland) has demonstrated handover between LTE and HSPA networks using multimode LTE/HSPA silicon. The interoperability was realized in live networks belonging to Ericsson in Stockholm, Sweden, using multimode equipment powered by ST-Ericsson’s M710 platform.
The chipset used within ST-Ericsson’s M710 platform is commercially available and the [...]
10/26/2009
Communications World Weekly
Sources from China Telecom and the China Telecom Guangzhou Research Institute said after completing the EV-DO Rev. B lab tests, China Telecom has begun to conduct EV-DO Rev. B field tests in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu. The sources also emphasized that China Telecom will actively upgrade EV-DO Rev. B based on the [...]
