HSDPA Launched in Norway

TeliaSonera?s subsidiary NetCom says that it is the first in Norway to launch a HSDPA upgrade. The biggest cities in Norway will have access to the new network already in 2007.

The network will be built out where most needed, and so it is Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen and Stavanger that will get Turbo 3G in 2007. The build-out is planned to continue in 2008 and 2009.

In parallel with the launch of the new mobile network, NetCom releases several new services and price plans.

"We customize the mobile broadband offering to the needs of the different customer groups and offer several new subscription solutions. The products will be adapted both to big users in the business market and to customers who wish to have access to the Internet wherever they are," says Hans Heggenhaugen, Product Manager, Mobile Broadband, NetCom.

TeliaSonera already offers HSDPA in Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and plans a launch in Finland in the near future. "

Posted to the site on 19th April 2007