T-Mobile becomes the first to disclose a high speed broadband service to offer a technology called High Speed Packet Access Plus (HSPA+). This will provide customers with wireless connections and the network upgrade is expected to be complete by the end of this year, bringing a theoretical change of 21Mbps to the company’s entire 3G footprint. The fastest network is supposed to download a movie in 17 minutes. Untill now the network has expanded from Philadelphia to parts of New York City, New Jersey, Long Island, the Las Vegas Convention Centre and Strip areas, and west suburb of Washington DC, with Los Angeles coming soon.
HSPA+ can deliver download rates as fast as 21M bps and is said to be an interim step to LTE (Long-Term Evolution), a technology that could offer as fast as 80M bps download speeds. All the operators are already in the run to upgrade their networks to higher-speed, which also boost the efficiency of the networks. According to sources, Verizon will be the first operator to offer LTE but T-Mobile and AT&T plan to follow. T-Mobile says Dell’s Mini 10 will be the first to avail this technology, and among the Smartphones, Nokia’s low-cost Nuron, HTC’s HD2 and Motorola’s Cliq XT will follow.
Senior vice president of engineering and operations Neville Ray said in a statement “over 200 million people in the U.S. are now covered by T-Mobile 3G, 47,000 have fiber backhaul already, which will help to support the massive data usage of HSPA+. T-Mobile also plans to cover over 100 metro areas with HSPA+ by the end of 2010.” But an added advantage here is that the company is trying to make this technology available in already existing devices that the customers are carrying instead of purchasing a new device with this technology.
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