Vodafone Portugal to launch 43Mbps mobile broadband by year-end

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Deployment of HSPA+ Release 8 technology will be completed by Vodafone Portugal across its network by May 2010 with an aim to commercially launch the upgrade by year-end. The announcement was made after the successful demonstration of peak download speeds of 43Mbps, while claiming that upload speeds of up to 11Mbps will be available.

Currently, the deployment is carried out in partnership with Qualcomm and Ericsson. Although the completion of the up gradation is expected to be in the second quarter of 2010, the first compatible USB devices will be commercially available only until year-end 2010. The launch of the first handset can extend up to mid-2011.