Source: ISP Review
In the space of less than two years Mobile Broadband services, delivered by each of the country’s (UK) five main cellular mobile phone network operators (O2 , T-Mobile, Vodafone, Three (3) and Orange), have gone from being slow and costly business-only services to an affordable product with mass market appeal – fast wireless broadband Internet access wherever you want it.
This radical change is due in no small part to the advent of High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technology, an enhancement to existing 3rd Generation (3G) mobile networks. HSPA can deliver download speeds almost on-par with existing land-line based broadband services and is thus often referred to as a 3.5G or 3G+ technology. Theoretically HSPA can deliver download speeds of up to 14.4Mbps (5.8Mbps upstream), rising to 42Mbps (22Mbps upstream) with HSPA+ technology.
However for all its many improvements HSPA is still a deeply imperfect technology. It has problems with latency times (low latency is crucial for fast and effective VoIP and multiplayer gaming), connection reliability, capacity management and rarely delivers upon its advertised speeds (an average of just 1 to 2Mbps is common place for real-world performance).
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In the space of less than two years Mobile Broadband services, delivered by each of the country’s (UK) five main cellular mobile phone network operators (O2 , T-Mobile, Vodafone, Three (3) and Orange), have gone from being slow and costly business-only services to an affordable product with mass market appeal – fast wireless broadband Internet access wherever you want it.
This radical change is due in no small part to the advent of High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technology, an enhancement to existing 3rd Generation (3G) mobile networks. HSPA can deliver download speeds almost on-par with existing land-line based broadband services and is thus often referred to as a 3.5G or 3G+ technology. Theoretically HSPA can deliver download speeds of up to 14.4Mbps (5.8Mbps upstream), rising to 42Mbps (22Mbps upstream) with HSPA+ technology.
However for all its many improvements HSPA is still a deeply imperfect technology. It has problems with latency times (low latency is crucial for fast and effective VoIP and multiplayer gaming), connection reliability, capacity management and rarely delivers upon its advertised speeds (an average of just 1 to 2Mbps is common place for real-world performance).
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