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Miles
28-02-2006, 03:18 PM
Could HSDPA network technology and notebook PCs be the perfect match for the mobile industry? Notebook shipments are soaring worldwide and have already overtaken desktops on most European markets.

Between 2005 and 2009 the population of notebook PCs in Europe is expected to grow by 140 percent to reach 118 million devices. At the same time all major population centres will be covered by high speed HSDPA data services. WLAN was embraced by the PC industry in just a few years. Can this success story be repeated by HSDPA and what does that mean for the mobile industry?

Read more (http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/March2006/2696.htm)

peterinlisbon
19-07-2006, 11:43 PM
I guess the two things do go together well. Notebooks are getting smaller and the price is coming down a lot. Probably in the end almost everyone will have a laptop and they will all have 3G built-in.