Japan’s eMobile first to upgrade its network to HSPA+
By Dusan Belic on Friday, August 7th, 2009 at 1:35 AM PST In General
Japan’s fourth largest operator, eMobile, announced that they are the first carrier to upgrade the network to HSPA+, bringing download speeds to 21Mbps. Of course a compatible handset or a USB modem is required to take advantage of those speeds, but that shouldn’t be the problem — I guess they added some new devices to its offering following the upgrade.
Anyway, eMobile holds about 15% of the market, which is not bad considering its competitors include NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM), SoftBank (OTCPK: SFTBF) Mobile and KDDI. After HSPA+ comes LTE, and the carrier plans to start constructing the new network in September 2010…
[Via: Engadget Mobile]
