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Sonaecom (a Portuguese Operator) and Huawei have announced a successful launch of Soanecom’ s HSPA+ (High Speed Packet Access Evolution) services. This mobile broadband service allows Sonaecom to offer an improved user experience to customers with lower latency and much higher speed. Via 64 QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) in the air interface, Sonaecom’ s HSPA+ network supports downlink data rate of up to 21.6 Mbps.
“Due to Huawei’s smooth introduction of HSPA+ on our existing network, the new technology can help us maintain our leading position in the Portuguese competitive market,” said Mr. José Pinto Correia, CTO of Sonaecom. “This new technology will enable our customers to enjoy higher speed and higher quality mobile broadband services, while delivering more capacity to our network.”
To enhance Sonaecom’ s existing UMTS network, Huawei provided an end-to-end solution with state-of-the-art HSPA+ networks and customized mobile broadband modems.
Sonaecom launched HSPA+ services after a successful technology trial carried out in June 2009, in which the maturity of this technology was proven. The trial phase has been supported by Huawei and Qualcomm and uses terminal equipment featuring Qualcomm’ s MDM8200 HSPA+ chipset.
As of Q2 of 2009, Huawei has deployed over 10 commercial HSPA+ networks worldwide – quite an impressive stat if you consider the relative early stages we are still at. Expect things to pick up quite considerably in the next 12-24 months!
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Ben Robinson
Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas! He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to 'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device) isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question of why you continue to use it... His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience in the industry, he will provide commentary on the industry at large, with regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.
