Good news for US Cingular customers who have been waiting patiently for Cingular Wireless to roll out their wireless broadband service using HSDPA technology. Cingular recently announced that they are now offering their Broadband Connect wireless broadband service to a number of major metropolitan areas across the country. They have also included a number […]

Sigh, it is tough being a geek in the United States sometimes. Big business is really into making money here and it is preventing me from getting my super geekiness on at times. Tech Central published an article today about 3.5G network upgrades in Malaysia. For those of you who don’t know about […]

Thinking that I am over my Nokia 6620 Smartphone, I am plotting the purchase of my next phone. I have been looking at things like the Samxung i730, which is currently in the lead. But, I have not ruled out the Nokia 9300, which has a full QWERTY keyboard for entering text messages, email or […]

In an article on Wireless Design Asia, I read the findings of a recent Motorola HSDPA trial conducted in Europe. Motorola concluded three items that are crucial to a successful rollout of HSDPA to provide “mobile broadband”.
First, sufficient processing power is needed. Latency can become a big problem when switching users from a […]

In more 3G HSDPA news this week, Ericsson successfully upgraded Tokyo’s Vodafone commercial network to support HSDPA. The software and hardware upgrades that were implemented support downstream rates of up to 3.6Mbps and 384Kbps up. Unfortunately, for the Vodafone customers in central Tokyo, the HSDPA upgrade has not been activated for commercial use. […]

Looks like the boys and girls “over the pond” will be getting an upgraded HSDPA across the national O2 network by Q3 of 2006, according to the UK Register. Cingular has announced that they will be doing a similar upgrade to their 3G network capabilities here in the US using HSDPA (High Speed Data […]