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Parents admit to driving while using handheld mobiles

Fifteen percent of Australian parents have admitted to using a handheld mobile phone while driving with their kids in the car according to new research released by mobile network operator, telstra. These finding come as many of families get ready to hit the road for the Easter long weekend.  more

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Hong Kong Network Launches HSPA+ Upgrade

Hong Kong's CSL - a subsidiary of Australia's telstra - has launched the world's first Software Defined Radio (SDR) based HSPA+ All IP commercial network, with the upgrade provided by China's ZTE. CSL invested hundreds of millions of dollars to establish the network.  more

Related Tags: base-station, zte, hspa, ovi, base-stations, sdr, hspa+, csl, Hong Kong

StarHub Launches HSPA+ Upgrade: Offers Peak 21Mbps Download Speeds

Singapore's StarHub, in partnership with Huawei has announced the launch of StarHub's HSPA+ upgrade - offering peak mobile data downloads of up to 21Mbps. When Australian operator, telstra launched its HSPA+ upgrade, it said that customers could expect the average download speed to be around 8Mbps.  more

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Global W-CDMA base doubles as CDMA decline gathers pace

The dominance of the GSM family of technologies continued to increase in the year ended 30th September 2007 as a 25.9% increase in the number of 2G GSM customers was boosted by a 102.1% increase in the W-CDMA base. Overall the increase amounted to 28.8%, exceeding the global total of 24.2% and taking the proportion of the global customer base accounted for by the two technologies to 86.0% from 82.9% a year earlier.  more

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