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Vodafone HSDPA Stretches To Brisbane |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
The high-speed
broadband upgrade to Vodafone's mobile phone network is progressing
with Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast,
Adelaide and Perth now all on the 3.6MBps 3G network and customers on
the New South Wales' Central Coast due to be added in September this
year.
Vodafone's said customers on the network can expect to enjoy download
speed in the order of 600kbps to 1.5MBps, stressing that it also uses
compression and optimisation software
which automatically compresses all inbound and outbound data
resulting in quicker data delivery speeds and file transfers which
ultimately reduces data costs.
On average, Vodafone
customers will see their data throughput compressed by around 30 per
cent, said a company statement.
Peak upload data rates are 384kbps with real-time speeds expected to
average around 250kbps. In other words, downloads are about approximately four times faster and uploads are about
three times faster. Vodafone also expects to deliver further enhancements to upload
speeds, once High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) technology becomes
available for its network.
"We launched HSDPA, which we're marketing as ‘3G broadband' in
inner metropolitan Sydney and Melbourne in October 2006 and demand has
been phenomenal," said Edward Goff, General Manager Business Markets at
Vodafone Australia.
"Every month we're connecting thousands of
customers to mobile broadband with our 3G broadband USB modems and data
cards and that's set to increase exponentially now that we've flicked
the switch on more metro areas."
The company expects to begin
offering an HSDPA-enabled Smartphone in the "very near future", but
until then its USB modems and data cards.
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