Cingular Launches HSDPA in 3 US Cities
Struggling to keep up with the likes of Sprint / Nextel and Verizon Wireless, the boys and girls over at Cingular have launched the GSM answer to EV-DO, HSDPA (high speed data packet access) in three manjor US cities. Dallas, Phoenix and Seattle, three of the countries biggest consumers of high speed and broadband internet services, have had their Cingular wireless network upgraded to utilize HSDPA technology. Cingular used equipment provided by Ericsson to upgrade their Dallas/Fort Worth network and is relying on Lucent’s recently upgraded networks in Seattle in Phoenix to provide service to Cingular 3G users. Both say that the HSDPA upgrades should provide average data speeds of between 400Kbps and 700Kbps. Good news for Cingular customers, but will it be in time?