The A to Z of wireless

H is for HSDPA

HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access), as the name would suggest, is the high speed wireless internet standard that is competing with WiMax for use in various mobile devices. An HSDPA network can support download speeds of up to 1.4Mbps and gradual upgrades are expected to raise this to 10Mbps by 2008.

Such are the high speeds that HSDPA offers for mobile phones (four times standard 3G) it has been nicknamed 3.5G. The standard is seen as having the potential to fully exploit GPS and increase call capacity for mobile operators.

The list from A to Z

Click on the links below to find out more on each of the entries in the list.

A is for Antivirus
B is for Bluetooth
C is for The Cloud
D is for dotMobi
E is for Email
F is for FMC
G is for GPS
H is for HSDPA
I is for i-mode
J is for Japan Air
K is for Korea
L is for LBS
M is for M2M
N is for NFC
O is for Operating systems
P is for Pubs
Q is for QoS
R is for Roaming
S is for Satellite
T is for TV
U is for UMTS
V is for Virgin
W is for WiMax
X is for XDA
Y is for Yucca
Z is for Zigbee

O2 took up the standard in 2005 and Orange, Vodafone and T-Mobile are all committed to rolling out HSDPA services in their mobile products in the near future. Dell has started to make laptops with HSDPA capability, tapping into Vodafone's European networks.