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RSS downlink in newsWhat's beyond 3G? 3.5G, stupid
News HSDPA - or (take a breath now) High Speed Downlink Packet Access - is already in the sights of W-CDMA pioneer NTT DoCoMo for a Japan launch around this time next year and it will be the 3.5G choice of other operators, according to ARC Group. [29 Mar 2004]
2006: Mobiles will beat PCs for broadband speed
News According to Simon Beresford-Wylie, Nokia's executive VP of networks, 2006 will see the arrival proper of HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) - a software tweak that can significantly boost the speeds of 3G - enabling downlink speeds of... [13 Jun 2005]
3 goes high speed with HSDPA network
News The third-generation operator, which recently celebrated its third birthday, has revealed it has completed trials of the super fast 3G technology HSDPA (which stands for 'high speed downlink packet access').has been testing the technology, also... [14 Mar 2006]
Set 3.5G free, says analyst
News Kofiloto noted that mobile operators today capitalise on HSDPA's mobility benefits over fixed DSL (digital subscriber line) and wi-fi, to justify the premium pricing of high-speed downlink packet access services. [08 Mar 2006]
BT DSL under threat from cheap satellite broadband
News Hughes and its main rival, Gilat Satellite Networks, also offer broadband services with a satellite uplink and downlink, through a range of ISPs including BT and Tiscali. However, satellite analyst Simon Bull at Comsys cast doubt on the viability... [21 Aug 2001]
3.5G network growth ramping up
News HSDPA, or high speed downlink packet access, is a beefed up flavour of 3G capable of delivering downlink speeds of up to a theoretical maximum of 7.2Mbps. Almost two-thirds (62 per cent) of existing commercial HSDPA networks support downlink speeds... [09 Jan 2008]
High-speed uplink coming to T-Mobile
News High-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA), also known as 'super-3G', is already commonly rolled out across the UK, but its counterpart - high-speed uplink packet access (HSUPA) - has only recently been appearing, and on a limited basis. [01 Jul 2008]
Satellite broadband goes live in the UK
News The service offers a 256Kpbs uplink and a 512Kbps downlink, the same speeds as entry-level DSL. Cedar Telecommunications today launched a broadband satellite internet service, claiming to be the first commercial DSL-equivalent satellite service in... [21 Sep 2001]
Mobile industry will bet on 3.5G
News HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) is already on the shopping list of several major operators around the world in the GSM camp, including Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone, and has gained widespread acceptance with a thumbs-up from the GSMA... [28 Sep 2005]
mmO2 to launch speedy 3G
News The mobile operator explained it will be the first in Europe to offer HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) and IMS (Internet Protocol Multimedia Services) with download speeds of 3.6Mbps when it launches the service in the Isle of Man next... [06 Dec 2004]
BT trials low-cost satellite internet
News Users will have an always-on downlink of 256kbps - half the speed of the cheapest ADSL lines. BT is set to trial a fast, satellite-based internet access product for use by people living in remote areas who have so far been left out of the... [15 Apr 2002]
3.5G gizmos mushrooming forth
News There are now 637 high speed downlink packet access products on the market, with almost half (303) of them being mobile phones. The number of 3.5G devices on the market is mushrooming with 150 per cent annual growth in HSDPA gizmos, according to... [07 Apr 2008]
Fat pipe have-nots offered cheap satellite broadband
News Satellite broadband provider Isonetric announced this week that it is launching a satellite product that will give users a downlink of up to 1Mbps - much faster than the satellite broadband system currently being trialled by BT. [16 Oct 2002]
Satellite broadband 'rips-off' helpless SMEs
News The top Cedar package has a 256Kbps uplink and 512Kbps downlink, matching basic DSL, with capped downloads of one gigabyte for £300 per month for multi-user access. The UK's small and medium sized businesses are being 'fleeced' by satellite... [16 Oct 2001]
EDGE, WiMax, HSDPA, IMS: Can you pick the winners from the losers?
News HSDPA, or high speed downlink packet access, has been called 3.5G, a term O2 CTO David Williams rejects. Mobile operator mmO2 has been sorting out where it will be setting out its stall for the alphabet soup of connectivity of the future. [27 Jan 2005]
