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terça-feira, junho 14, 2005

2006: Mobiles will beat PCs for broadband speed

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According to Simon Beresford-Wylie, Nokia's executive VP of networks, 2006 will see the arrival proper of HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) - a software tweak that can significantly boost the speeds of 3G - enabling downlink speeds of 14Mbps on mobiles.

Such speeds would mean a serious increase - up from the 1Mbps to 2Mbps HSDPA can manage now, or the 384Kbps of the W-CDMA version of 3G.

HSUPA (high speed uplink packet access) is also due for a massive rise: up from 1.5Mbps to 7Mbps at the end of next year, according to Beresford-Wylie. Aside from the my-fat-pipe's-bigger-than-yours showboating, what will the higher numbers mean for the business traveller?

Beresford-Wylie said: "If you're downloading emails with large attachments, you need these speeds."

The Finnish giant estimates that by 2009 there will be 30 million broadband wireless users.
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silicon.com

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