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.

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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.

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Vodafone Spain launches UC package

On 02.09.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A unified communications (UC) package has been launched by Vodafone Spain for business customers. Microsoft Online Services and Vodafone Office tools are the two products of the package.

Different forms of communications into an integrated, comprehensive and secure communications solution has been combined in the Microsoft Online Services web-based business applications. Calendar functions, work areas and IM features online can also be accessed by the users besides taking part taking in web and video conferences.

Voice and data services from Vodafone are also included in the UC pack , everything at a price of EUR 18 per month.

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Malaga and Seville receive Vodafone HSPA+

On 12.23.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vodafone Spain’s subscribers in Seville and Malaga can now experience the download speeds of up to 14.4Mbps and real speeds of around 10.8Mbps. Spanish mobile network operator has expanded its HSPA+ mobile broadband network to both the countries.

Higher speeds, up to 21.6Mbps theoretical (16.2Mbps real) in specific areas in the two capitals has also been enabled by Vodafone. These specific areas include El Palo and the industrial estates of San Luis and Guadalorce in Malaga, and the areas of Viapol, Nervion and Bami in Seville.

By end-March 2010, the target of the telco is to expand its HSPA+ to cover 75% of the population in Seville, and 20% of Malaga’s population.

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Digicel introduces Friends & Family service (Fiji)

On 04.06.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Digicel Fiji has introduced a new service dubbed as Friends and Family service for its prepaid subscribers. As per the service, the subscribers will be able to choose between two and ten numbers to make calls at a discounted rate. The prepaid subscribers can choose a postpaid number on the list. A subscriber will be able to delete nearly three numbers from the existing leave once in a month. The calls within the group are priced at FJD 0.30/minute, and outside the group at FJD 0.40/minute. For the calls made to Vodafone or Telecom numbers, subscribers have to pay FJD 0.45/minute.

   

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