3 to Increase the Speed of it?s HSDPA and HSUPA
3 have already completed a rollout to give more than 95 per cent of the UK’s population access to 3.6Mb/s HSDPA, but not one to sit on their laurels they have now vowed to increase the speed of HSDPA mobile broadband over the next couple of years, and claim that its customers in London and “other major cities” will be able to access the web at 14.4Mbps by 2010, double the current speed.
3 say the supercharged 3G system will be ready to launch by the third quarter of that year, and has promised to increase HSUPA speeds in large cities to 5.7Mbps by the same time.
Rumour also has it that 3 users who don’t live in a built up city area should also see a doubling of the current speed, from 3.6Mbps to 7.2Mbps, however, senior 3 executive Hugh Davies couldn’t confirm how 
long it will be before customers living in more rural areas of the country would be able to get the same HSDPA and HSUPA speeds as their London based counterparts.
This increase in browsing power is sure to come as great news to 3G modem/ USB modem enthusiasts, so I for one can’t wait to see what happens over the next couple of years.
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3 to Increase the Speed of it?s HSDPA and HSUPA
