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GSA survey confirms HSPA as global system of choice |
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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
According to a new survey published by GSA (the Global mobile Suppliers Association), 68 HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) networks commercially launched during 2007, representing annual growth of 69%. The latest GSA HSDPA Operator Commitments survey confirms there are 166 commercial HSDPA networks in 75 countries. HSDPA-enabled mobile broadband services extended to 24 new countries during the year. A further 38 networks are committed to HSDPA rollout, to reach a total of 204 HSDPA Operator commitments in 89 countries.
HSDPA is now widely commercially available throughout the APAC region (35 networks), Western Europe (61 networks), Eastern Europe (34 networks), Middle East and Africa (20 networks) and the
Americas and
Caribbean (16 networks).
This latest survey highlights the key trend how networks are quickly evolving to fast mobile broadband speeds. 103 commercial HSDPA networks i.e. 62% of launched networks, support downlink data speeds of 3.6Mbits/s peak or higher, including 35 networks which support 7.2Mbits/s peak.
An evolution is also taking place in uplink data speeds. 51 operators have committed to HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access), and 26 networks have commercially launched HSUPA service in 22 countries. All the HSUPA launches took place during 2007, with 24 launches occurring in the past 6 months.
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