UK: Vodafone outreaches mobile broadband network
By Ben Robinson on Thursday, May 15th, 2008 at 1:57 PM PST In Mobile Broadband, Vodafone
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) UK is extending it’s HSPA coverage for mobile broadband to 6 new cities – Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Reading. This will give users downlink speeds of up to 7.2 Mb/s, with up to 1.8 Mb/s on the uplink. Right now, HSPA is only available in London and major UK airports, so it’s a big step forward in the always-tricky coverage equation.
Right now, the mobile broadband market (and by that I mean the market segment served by those USB 3G dongles, attached to Laptops) is extremely competitive – all the Operators now have an offering, with the dongles selling like proverbial “hot-cakes”. So it’s going to be interesting to see in the next few months, how the marketing battle play out in the media for download speed, cost, and coverage!
[Via: silicon.com]
