T-Mobile Details HSDPA Launch Plans

T-Mobile Austria say that it will be offering the first HSDPA-capable data card from this November. When the commercial start of HSDPA is launched at the CeBIT 2006 trade fair, customers will be able to search the Internet in downlink with data rates of 1.8 megabit per second, work in the intranet, send e-mails and download files. From 2007 the speed is to be increased to 3.6 megabit per second in a second stage. This is equivalent to ten times the bandwidth possible today with UMTS - 384 kilobits per second.

In addition T-Mobile Austria has already started an HSDPA field trial, and within the framework of this test customers are able to take a close look at the new technology. In the first stage the test area covers a greater part of the inner city districts of Vienna. The insurance and finance group Generali is one of the first test customers to use HSDPA. Within the framework of the test operation supply scenarios in the indoor and outdoor areas are acted out. Here the mobility behavior, for instance the handover of one base station to another or the influence of mobility on the data transfer rate will be thoroughly tested. "In this test operation we gain valuable experience about the functionalities of the individual network elements and their interaction," commented DI G

Posted to the site on 17th October 2005