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3G Americas, a wireless consortium focused on making sure the western hemisphere catches up to the eastern hemisphere in terms of mobile telecommunications awesomeness sometime before the end of this century, is predicting that in September of this year there will be 4 billion GSM connections live. From June 2008 to June 2009, the amount of people using HSPA, the faster version GSM, in the Americas region grew by 19% compared to 20% globally. When you add UMTS to the mix, also known as 3G, the rate of growth for the same period increases drastically to 57% according to analysts at Informa. Informa also says that it will take until 2012 to reach the first billion UMTS/HSPA customers. You have to feel bad for the guy on some Caribbean island trying to pirate a copy of Windows 7 using only GPRS. By the time that download finishes, it probably will be 2012 and by then Europe will have super cheap LTE. At least I hope. Hopefully the FCC will help speed up America’s evolution.
[Via: Cellular News]
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
