Vodafone Portugal Triples Mobile Broadband Speed to 21.6Mbps

Published on: 1st Jan 1970: 1:33am

Vodafone Portugal has tripled its mobile download speeds to a peak rate of 21.6Mbps, after launching a HSPA+ 64QAM upgrade. The maximum upload speed will increase from the present 1.4 Mbps to 5.7 Mbps.

After becoming the first Portuguese operator to make data sessions in HSPA+ in February this year, Vodafone is now also taking the lead in rolling out this technology to the general public, making it the first operator in Portugal and one of the first in the world to offer speeds of 21.6 Mbps on a mobile network.

In this launch phase, HSPA+ is available in the Lisbon area. It will be progressively expanded to the rest of country in the same way as with developments in earlier technologies.

The changes that Vodafone has made to its network to support HSPA+, including a major expansion of its radio and transmission capacity, will also have positive effects for existing broadband customers on price plans with lower speeds.

The initial tests of the HSPA+ 64QAM upgrade occurred in February and were based on Ericsson supplied hardware.

 

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