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Wednesday, 01 August 2007 |
Research by the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) confirms that 3G/WCDMA is now commercially launched by 174 network operators in 78 countries. GSA’s latest HSDPA Operator Commitments survey confirms that 128 HSDPA networks have commercially launched service in 63 countries, i.e. HSDPA is enabled on almost three quarters of 3G/WCDMA networks. A further 50 HSDPA networks are currently in deployment – making a total of 178 HSDPA operator commitments in 80 countries, an increase of 71% compared with 104 commitments in July 2006. And the number of commercial HSDPA networks has more than tripled in 12 months, from 42 to 128 today. In the uplink direction, High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) services have been launched by operators in Europe and
Asia. The survey indicates at least 27 networks have currently launched, are rolling out, or are testing HSUPA.
The latest GSA HSDPA Devices survey confirms a huge rise in the number of user devices now available for the rapidly expanding mobile broadband services market enabled by HSPA (High Speed Packet Access). The GSA survey, published on July 26th, 2007 confirms that 311 HSDPA-capable devices are launched in the market, which is over 6 times the number reported in a similar GSA survey one year ago (50 HSDPA devices, July 31, 2006). The number of suppliers increased from 16 to 71 in the same period.
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