IT news: HSDPA just around the corner.High speed downlink Transmitting from a satellite to an earth station. Contrast with uplink. packet acess (HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) See HSPA. ) will soon become a commercial reality, with many operators currently conducting trials. Many of the operators are due to launch in 2006, but a minority number are seeking to open their respective networks by the end of 2005, IDC believes that by the end of 2009, them will be just under 40 million HSDPA subscribers in Western Europe Western Europe The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO). . Comment "While there has been increasing talk of HSDPA for the last couple of years, one has to question why mobile operators are making their respective upgrades to HSDPA so soon after the launch of commercial 3G networks. Does it genuinely offer users a better user experience or is the argument more related to fending off competition from other technologies or other telecom players?' said Paolo Peseatore, EMF-A research manager, European Consumer Wireless and Mobile Communications, IDC. The operators will use HSDPA to provide users with a high-speed data connection, as well as delivering data at more cost effective bit rates than W-CDMA See WCDMA. . In addition, it is important for carriers to deploy faster data networks to reduce the competitive threat of any next-generation networks. Some of the benefits operators will see from HSDPA include: * Greater user capacity * Efficient use of the existing network, allowing more users to benefit from faster data rates within the same cell * Boosting throughput * Lower operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales * A better user experience to end users Initial launches will be focused on corporate customers via PC cards, replicating the 3G launches of the mobile network operators. However, handsets will increasingly become available, with consumers being able to benefit from faster data speeds in order to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. applications such as video and music at much faster rates than 3G will ever provide. www.idc.com |
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