Archive for the ‘HSUPA’ Category

In today’s press release, AT&T has announced that in June, it will be deploying HSUPA in the six remaining markets and completing its deployment of HSUPA technology. The move will make AT&T the only US carrier to have entirely deployed HSPA as part of its 3G network. All future UMTS network additions will launch simultaneously [...]

Speaking at a communications conference hosted by noted investment banking firm Morgan Stanley today, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega has confirmed that the carrier plans to increase downstream 3G speeds by five times going into 2009, with rates exceeding 20Mbps.
This contradicts an earlier statement made by the Vice President of Architecture Frank Kafka [...]

AT&T has signed an agreement with UK small scale cell site solutions developer ip.access worth $500 million over five years in order to deploy femtocell technology with the goal to distribute the devices for as little as $100.
Femtocells are small scale base stations that operate using a high-speed internet connection in order to take available [...]

In a press release today, Sony Ericsson has announced the pending launch of the Z780a clamshell phone with US W-CDMA support.
The Z780 features quadband GSM/EDGE support with triband HSUPA high speed data access (a first for Sony Ericsson and the US market), large internal display, Bluetooth with stereo audio support, 2.0 megapixel camera with video [...]

AT&T Vice-President of Network Architecture Hank Kafka has made definitive statements regarding the carrier’s progress in upgrading its 3G W-CDMA enabled markets.
Speaking at a roundtable meeting sponsored by the GSM Association, Kafka stated that AT&T had 255 markets with HSDPA access in 2007 and expects to add more with a total goal of 350 by [...]

Nokia has officially unveiled the N96, the successor to the N95 multimedia oriented smart device.
The N96 features a 2.8 inch QVGA display, quadband GSM with single-band W-CDMA with another version planned for the US, 16GB flash memory with an additional microSD slot that supports up to 8GB microSD cards, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi radio, aGPS support with [...]

Sony Ericsson has announced the pending availability of two new ExpressCards in a press release today, one of which includes a built-in GPS module.

The EC400 features support for HSDPA 7.2 and upload speeds up to 2 mbps while the EC400g features a built-in GPS module which can be used with any compatible application. Both [...]

Kicking off our coverage of the Mobile World Congress (formerly 3GSM Congress), Sony Ericsson has announced in a press release today the launch of Xperia. Xperia is a new brand name which represents premium devices that truly represent the idea of mobile convergence. Sony Ericsson has also announced the beginning of a licensing agreement with [...]

Qualcomm today announced new MDM base station chipsets (the technology that powers base stations and towers), all three of which offer support for future LTE technology, as well as backwards support for CDMA and GSM/UMTS networks. The MDM9200 is an LTE-only chipset, meant for new networks. The MDM9600 offers backwards-compatibility with GSM and UMTS networks [...]

Qualcomm has announced in a press release today that the company intends to begin preliminary trials of the HSPA+ protocol with carriers Hutchison 3G, Telecom Italia, Telefonica and Telstra.
The HSPA+ protocol is a further evolution of W-CDMA HSDPA access allowing for a stated maximum download speed of 28Mbps using 2×2 MIMO transmission and 21Mbps using QAM modulation on [...]