HSDPA for Hong Kong

SmarTone-Vodafone has announced the launch of full High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) network in Hong Kong and Hong Kong's first commercial HSDPA-enabled service, SmarTone-Vodafone Mobile Broadband.

"We are pleased to be the first operator in Hong Kong to offer Mobile Broadband with full HSDPA coverage throughout the territory. This launch represents what real 3G can achieve and demonstrates how 3G with HSDPA can bring substantially better benefits to both business users and consumers through our Mobile Broadband service."

Full HSDPA coverage in Hong Kong

SmarTone-Vodafone's HSDPA network provides a data speed of 1.8Mbps, 5 times faster than that of 3G and 20 times faster than GPRS. SmarTone-Vodafone is planning to upgrade to a maximum speed of 14.4 Mbps by 2007/08.

The Mobile World database notes that SmarTone-Vodafone holds just over 12% of the local market, with just over 1 million subscribers at the end of last year."

Posted to the site on 12th June 2006