T-Mobile: Faster 3G Service Broadly Available In Summer 2006

BERLIN -(Dow Jones)- T-Mobile, Thursday said that its high-speed third-generation wireless services will become broadly available in Germany as of summer 2006.

The service uses HSDPA technology - which speeds-up third-generation networks to speeds above the average home fixed-line broadband Internet speed - and will become available in spring 2006 in some areas in Germany.

"High-speed (3G) will also be available from summer 2006 in areas where T-Mobile Germany already offers (3G) coverage," T-Mobile said in a statement. T-Mobile has almost countrywide 3G coverage.

The company also said that it is pressing ahead with the development of HSDPA-capable hardware. Together with computer-maker Fujitsu Siemens, partly owned by German engineering firm Siemens, T-Mobile said it expects to offer the first HSDPA-enabled laptop computer in the second quarter of 2006.

In a separate statement, T-Mobile said it will launch a cheaper flat-rate tariff for mobile data transmission that will cost EUR35 a month and EUR1 for each day of use.

Company Web site: http://www.t-mobile.de

-By Joon Knapen, Dow Jones Newswires; +49-69-29725509; joon.knapen@dowjones.com

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Posted to the site on 2nd February 2006