Vodafone now offers its customers in Germany mobile broadband services at DSL speed. The necessary technology is supplied by Siemens: High Speed Data Packet Access (HSDPA) accelerates data downloads from the Internet to mobile devices over wireless networks that use the W-CDMA standard.
As Vodafone recently announced, the mobile broadband service is being launched under the name “UMTS Broadband”, initially in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover and Munich. Vodafone customers in these cities can then access the Internet and their intranet at DSL speed, using a notebook or mobile phone for faster downloads than were previously possible. HSDPA now supports speeds of up to 1.8 megabits a second.
The transmission speed of the new technology will be increased in stages, beginning with its current rate of up to 1.8 megabits a second. There are also plans to roll out HSDPA technology quickly in all 1,800 German towns and cities supplied with W-CDMA.
