Pannon Expands HSDPA Coverage in Hungary

Hungary's Pannon has announced that its HSDPA network is now available at nearly 360 towns and villages across Hungary. At the same time, Pannon customers can use an EDGE network available to 99% of HungaryÃ's population for Web browsing and e-mailing.

"Pannon continues to dynamically expand its network which is also reflected by the more than tenfold increase in the volume of data transferred via our HSDPA network over the past 12 months. Following Budapest, its agglomeration area and Lake Balaton, we are implementing major projects in other parts of the country including Heves county. We believe that mobile broadband will be well-received not only in the nearly 360 towns and villages but in the following ones as well ", said György Koller, Chief Technical Officer of Pannon.

Pannon is also currently testing 3G services at 900Mhz in cooperation with Ericsson. Pannon previously said that it intends to offer the technology to the general public as soon as possible once the test period is over and proper regulation is in place.

Figures from the Mobile World subscriber database shows that the operator ended the first half of this year with just over 4 million subscribers, and a market share 33.3%

Posted to the site on 14th August 2008