HSUPA Upgrade Launched in Southern Italy

Huawei has announced the successful commercial launch of High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) network services across southern Italy for Telecom Italia. The network, which is billed to be the fastest in Italy, enables uplink speeds of 1.92Mbps and downlink speeds of 7.2Mbps.

Huawei says that it completed the upgrade and expansion of Telecom Italia’s network in record time. The new network covers many tourist regions, including Sicily and Calabria.

"We appreciate Telecom Italia’s trust in Huawei," commented Qiao Xiaoping, managing director of Huawei Technologies Italy. "We are confident that the success of this project will lead to further opportunities to assist Telecom Italia with its growth - and in turn bring the best in next-generation mobile communications to consumers."

Telecom Italia is Italy's largest mobile operator by subscriber numbers, with a market share of around 42% according to figures from the Mobile World database. The company ended Q3 of this year with some 35 million customers - of which just over 5.7 million are already on the company's 3G network.

Posted to the site on 16th November 2007