AT&T To Finish Deploying Faster 3G Network In June
AT&T (NYSE: T) on Wednesday said it would complete the deployment of its faster 3G wireless broadband service by the end of June.
The telecommunications company said the remaining six markets would be connected to its HSUPA technology, which delivers up to 800 KB per second in upload speeds and 1.4 Mb per second in download capabilities. The service will be available to customers who have supporting devices, such as notebooks with AT&T's Laptop Connect wireless modems. However, such high-speed services among carriers are expensive with rates of $60 a month or more.
HSUPA, or high-speed uplink packet access, is a 3G, or third generation, mobile telephony protocol. The technology is expected to be an improvement over AT&T's slower HSDPA high-speed service. Since 2005, AT&T has invested more than $20 billion in network improvements and upgrades, according to the company. L33tdawg: 1.4Mbps down and 800Kbps up isn't exacty that fast - unless of course they mean 1.4MEGABYTES per second down (making it about a 10Mbps downstream link). In Malaysia we've already got 3.6Mbps HSDPA which is pretty decent although the UAE has 7.2Mbps HSDPA!
