January 13th, 2008
This is an amazing growth rate I’d say. It will for sure support an new era of always-on via smaller devices. Everything is data packages then: even voice telephony on the go. The availability of everything (well almost) that we learned with the rise of the web will be paired with ubiquity. Good or bad?
Surprisingly India is not part of that if I read the report (aka the summary) correctly
GSA Survey Confirms HSPA as Global System of Choice for Mobile Broadband; 166 HSDPA networks launched in 75 countries: ” According to a new survey published today by GSA – the Global mobile Suppliers Association, 68 HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) networks commercially launched during 2007, representing annual growth of 69%. GSA’s latest HSDPA Operator Commitments survey confirms there are 166 commercial HSDPA networks in 75 countries. HSDPA-enabled mobile broadband services extended to 24 new countries during the year. A further 38 networks are committed to HSDPA rollout,”
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This is with reference to HSPDA and India. We don’t have 3 GSM in India as yet and that might explain why India does not figure in the HSPDA list. However, mobile broadband is apparently going to be available in India starting mid-2008 and can work on the existing 2G network in India. I did an extensive interview with Ken Pawlak from Microsoft about Mobile Broadband during the GSMA conference in Macau.
kamla bhatt
Thanks for adding that info!