T-Mobile deploys HSUPA data service
By Asavin Wattanajantra,
T-Mobile has today followed in the footsteps of Vodafone by upgrading its mobile data service to support Hyper-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA).
The German-owned mobile operator has become the second company to offer HSUPA data services in the UK, claiming that it is the first mobile broadband provider to deploy HSUPA nationwide.
T-Mobile's HSUPA service should allow users to upload files at speeds of up to 1.4Mb/sec, a five-fold increase over its existing HSDPA service.
The company has also upped its downstream speed to 4.5Mb/sec, initially only within the M25 but rolling out to major cities in the second half of 2008. There is also scope for delivering up to 7.2Mb/sec using the same technology.
The company has added a mobile broadband checker to its web site, which will allow users to verify coverage for a specific postcode.
The increase in upstream and downstream rates have arrived at the same time as steep cuts in the company's data roaming charges, introduced in an effort to head-off EU charging caps.
There will be an 80 per cent reduction in data roaming charges in EU member countries, bringing the cost down to £1.50 per MB inc VAT.
T-Mobile UK chief executive Jim Hyde said of the changes: “Today, 25 per cent of new contract customers are signing up and we expect to quadruple our user base in 2008.”
Related Tags
advertisement
Latest Mobile & Telecoms Features
Consumer tech invading business
Is it possible to cross the business/consumer tech chasm successfully?
- Q&A: Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, co-chief executives at RIM
- The present and future of IT security
- Tera Scale Lab: Where hardware meets software
- Q&A: Motorola's enterprise VP John Coon
- Q&A: Orange's devices chief Francois Mahieu
- What's happened to Sony Ericsson?
- Top 10 iPhone tips
- Where will IT be in 2015?
- Keynote's Umang Gupta on the health of the Net
Latest Mobile & Telecoms Reviews
HTC Touch Pro
Rating: ![]()
advertisement
Latest News Videos in Mobile & Telecoms
Video: HTC Touch Pro review
Can HTC's Touch Pro go one better than the Touch Diamond? Check out our video review to find out.
White papers
Want more background on today's hottest IT trends?
Visit IT PRO's white paper library for more on virtualisation, encryption and other topics.
Register for IT PRO
You'll get exclusive member benefits including free white papers, downloads, Webinars and weekly newsletters full of the latest IT PRO news, reviews, insight and expertise.



Social Bookmark this article: What is this?