HSPA

Viva Bahrain offers free HSPA+ internet

On 03.10.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Saudi Telecom Company (STC) owned Viva which is a newcomer in Bahrain launched a free-of-charge promotion. The mobile operator has claimed in the promotion that it will offer the fastest broadband internet service of its type in Bahrain.

An announcement has been made by the company that mobile internet services will be provided at no subscription cost and without registration fees until June 4, 2010.

USB dongle will be used to access the service which will allow theoretical maximum mobile download speeds of 21.1Mbps over Viva Bahrain’s HSPA+ 3.5G network.

Vodafone Greece upgrades network in Athens

On 03.05.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Network of Vodafone Greece in Athens has been upgraded by the company with peak theoretical speeds of 28.8Mbps (download), via HSPA+.

The speed can be commercially received through Vodafone 4505 USB Stick, free of cost by subscribing to a ‘Vodafone Mobile Broadband’ tariff plan.

The rolling out of the upgrade in other part of the country will take place later in the year.

Tagged with: Athens • Europe • Greece • HSPA • Vodafone • Vodafone Greece • Vodafone Mobile Broadband

Etisalat’s Sri Lankan operation begins

On 03.04.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: After acquiring 100% stake in Tigo mobile firm, UAE operator Etisalat has launched its operations in Colombo, Sri Lanka, targeting 1 million customers by the end of the year. A subsidiary of Millicom International Cellular, Tigo was bought at an enterprise value of USD 207 million.

HSPA+ on the network is expected with a connectivity speed of 28 Mbps, on par with the company’s operations worldwide.

According to Etisalat Lanka CEO Dumindra Ratnayaka, within one year, the company will be rolling out 1,500 2G base stations and 500 3G base stations islandwide. Etisalat will be launching its coverage in Jaffna during the mini Infotel exhibitions scheduled to take place there on 26 February

Tagged with: 3G • ASIA • Colombo • Etisalat • HSPA • Launch • Millicom • Millicom International Cellular • operator • Sri Lanka • Tigo • UAE

Deutsche Telekom and NSN to highlight 42Mbps downlink speeds (Germany)

On 03.03.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: An HSPA+ data call with peak throughput of 42 Mbps over a standards based 3G network has been conducted by Nokia Siemens Networks and Deutsche Telekom at the CeBIT 2010 fair held in Hannover, Germany.

Dual Cell HSPA+ platform based on Nokia Siemens Networks’ commercial Flexi Multiradio Base Station and USB modems using Qualcomm’s MDM8220 chipset was used to make the 42Mbps data call.

The method to increase existing base station capacity with a simple software upgrade has been highlighted in Nokia Siemens Networks’ demonstration. The method will enable mobile operators to offer an improved user experience through doubling the average user’s connection speed.

According to Thomas Jul, head of the Customer Business Team Deutsche Telekom at Nokia Siemens Networks, the HSPA+ innovation of the company can bring higher speeds and improved network efficiency and will greatly improve the experience for consumers using smart devices and data cards as they will be able to enjoy advanced broadband services.

Tagged with: 3G • Deutsche Telekom • Europe • Germany • HSPA • Nokia Siemens Network • operator • Qualcomm

Polish telco Polkomtel’s network upgrade by NSN

On 03.03.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Nokia Siemens Networks and Polish cellco Polkomtel have joined hands to extend and modernize latter’s 3G/HSPA network to make it smartphone friendly and prepare it for the next generation of mobile broadband.

The improvement will increase Polkomtel’s mobile broadband coverage and capacity to provide its subscribers with improved mobile internet and multimedia services. This will also help the telco to deal with the data surge sparked by the growing number of high-speed data customers as well as that of smart devices.

According to Miguel Marin, chief technology officer at Polkomtel, to maintain company’s leadership in providing valuable new services to Polish subscribers, it has decided to upgrade the network for higher speeds and more capacity and the upgrade will prepare the network to handle new technologies like HSPA+ besides helping it to benefit from the lower energy consumption, and signaling efficiencies of Nokia Siemens Networks’ smartphone friendly technology.

Tagged with: 3G • Europe • HSPA • Nokia Siemens Network • NSN • Poland • Polkomtel

First HSPA then LTE for 4G: Report (USA)

On 02.25.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: In the first half of the decade, wireless mobile operators across the globe will implement HSPA+ while the second half will see the proliferation of LTE. Today HSPA+ is an attractive choice to solve the smart phone capacity crunch many operators face due to its relatively cheaper investment.

However, carriers will need to deploy LTE to remain competitive. WiMAX too remains strong as a 3.5 GHz fixed/portable platform but a lack of support from major carriers is resulting in a minimal role in the mobile wireless market.

According to “3.5G and 4G 2010: The Move to Worldwide Mobile Broadband,” LTE deployments will gain momentum in 2014, although some major carriers will have deployed the consensus 4G winner by then.

Tagged with: 3.5G • HSPA • LTE • North America • operator • USA • WiMAX

Alca-Lu reflects damage control mode after NZ network failures

On 02.25.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The repeated outages at the HSPA network supplied by Alcatel-Lucent to Telecom NZ have made the former go into a damage control mode. CEO of Alca- Lu, Ben Verwaayen went onto the airwaves to defend the company, but failed to explain the failures.

Verwaayen attributed the initial network problem to a serious hardware failure caused by traffic surges resulting from users trying to get back on the network which subsequently overloaded the system.

According to Paul Budde from Australian-based research firm Paul Budde Communications, the situation was getting very serious for Telecom New Zealand, damaging its credibility which in turn could weaken its chance of winning the next stage of the country’s fiber roll out project.

Tagged with: Alcatel-Lucent • Australia • HSPA • New Zealand • Telecom New Zealand • Telecom NZ

Vodafone Spain tests HSPA as a DSL alternative

On 02.22.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: With a view to assess HSPA as an alternative to DSL, Vodafone Spain has been conducting tests in the town of San Quirze del Valles, near Barcelona.

Exploding usage of broadband connections has made the operator to conduct this test which otherwise ran fixed and mobile services over a single cellular network. However, additional spectrum is required by WiMAX along with huge investments while the carrier is already struggling to see real ROI from 3G.

Vodafone is now hopeful that the latest upgrades to HSPA will make it more viable as a fixed technology and will be used as the backhaul for a Wi-Fi router. 100 households will be provided with HSPA modems and Wi-Fi access points, in a six-month pilot.

Tagged with: 3G • Barcelona • DSL • Europe • HSPA • operator • Spain • Vodafone • Vodafone Spain • WiMAX

Vodafone Spain conducts HSPA trials

On 02.19.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Six months trial of HSPA-based broadband services as a fixed broadband has been conducted by Spanish mobile network operator Vodafone Spain as a fixed broadband substitute in the town of San Quirze del Valles, near Barcelona.

HSPA 3G modems and Wi-Fi base stations will be provided to more than 100 households under this pilot scheme in order to use them instead of traditional ADSL-based high speed internet services.

Ascertaining the level of customer satisfaction with mobile broadband compared to traditional fixed line services, as well as studying both downlink and uplink speeds and download volumes are the two main aim of this project. Studying the level of service and capacity its mobile network may need in order to offer such services in a medium-sized city is also the reason behind these tests.

Tagged with: 3G • ADSL • ASIA • Barcelona • HSPA • operator • Spain • Vodafone • Vodafone Spain

MWC 2010: T-Mobile announces 3G upgrade

On 02.17.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: In a bid to outdo GSM rival AT&T in the 3G wireless data speed race in the US, T-Mobile USA announced that 7.2-Mbit/s High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) 3G upgrade to its network has been completed.

It was also announced that the work on “broad national deployment” of HSPA+ has also begun which will offer top download speeds of up to 21 Mbit/s, by the end of 2010.

It was recently announced by AT&T that the deployment of 7.2-bit/s HSPA software across its network has been finished and it is now building backhaul to support it.

Meanwhile, Verizon has promised 5- to 12-Mbit/s downloads over its new Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in select markets by the end of 2010.

Tagged with: 3G • GSM • HSPA • Long Term Evolution • North America • T-Mobile • T-Mobile USA • U.S • USA • Verizon

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