T-Mobile To Rollout HSPA+ To More Than 100 Areas

on 03/23/2010 13:26 PDT

T-Mobile looks like it will be snatching (and holding on to) the title of the nation’s fastest wireless 3G network, thanks to its HSPA+ network, covering 185 million people, which is a lot more than the 120 million Sprint’s 4G does. HSPA+ is backwards compatible with HSPA 7.2 devices, which is certainly great news for T-Mobile, as existing Android phones from the carrier will be faster. With T-Mobile facing stiff competition from other carriers such as AT&T and Verizon, hopefully the introduction of HSPA+ will help speed up the connection, and provide more stability to users.

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HSPA+ is also known as Evolved High-Speed Packet Access. It is a mobile broadband protocol that was defined by the 3GPP standard, release 7. In Theory, the HSPA+ data rate can go up to 84 Mbps (Megabits per second) downstream (to the mobile), and 22Mbps upstream (back to the tower). These numbers are achieved by using multiple streams, so they should be considered theoretical and peak performance numbers. The HSPA+ specifications support up to 168Mbps of theoretical peak rate. Although many HSPA+ carriers call it 4G, it is very different from 4G LTE.

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