Cingular today said it has upgraded its base stations in three of its six existing UMTS networks with high-speed downlink packet access software and hardware, allowing the operator to claim it has the first commercial HSDPA network in the world. Cingular revealed today Lucent Technologies and Ericsson have completed the HSDPA installation in Seattle, Phoenix and Dallas/Fort Worth.
There’s one slight problem, though. Cingular doesn’t yet have any HSDPA terminals, so none of Cingular’s customers can access the enhanced data speeds--expected to be between 400 kb/s to 700 kb/s. However, its current UMTS handsets and data cards sold originally by AT&T Wireless will continue to work on the three networks at normal UMTS speeds of 200 kb/s to 320 kb/s.
http://telephonyonline.com/wireless/news/cingular_hsdpa_markets_101805/
There’s one slight problem, though. Cingular doesn’t yet have any HSDPA terminals, so none of Cingular’s customers can access the enhanced data speeds--expected to be between 400 kb/s to 700 kb/s. However, its current UMTS handsets and data cards sold originally by AT&T Wireless will continue to work on the three networks at normal UMTS speeds of 200 kb/s to 320 kb/s.
http://telephonyonline.com/wireless/news/cingular_hsdpa_markets_101805/
