Europe
Finland : Nokia announced that its Networks business group has successfully
completed a High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) call, reaching
the speed of 3.2 Mbps, at its facilities in Beijing, China. The call
underlines Nokia's strong position in HSDPA development.
The data call, which achieved stable throughput, was made in a Nokia
network using a test terminal. Earlier this year, the Nokia Research
Center in China completed the industry's first High Speed Uplink Packet
Access) HSUPA demonstration.
The first commercial HSDPA software release for network infrastructure
offering up to 1.8 Mbps download speeds will be available in 2005
from Nokia, followed by a simple software upgrade to 3.6 Mbps starting
mid 2006 according to commercial terminal availability.
"Nokia is encouraged by the results of its HSDPA development
work in China," said Keith Sutton, Vice President, Technology
Office, Networks, Nokia China. "The high speed HSDPA call is
part of our ambitious HSDPA development timetable. It further demonstrates
Nokia's strong capability in 3G, offering world class performance
for our customers. The announcement today reaffirms our position as
the leading 3G mobile infrastructure and solution partner in China
area as well as our commitment to the market. "
Nokia has a substantial R&D commitment to China having six R&D
units including two 3G R&D Centers covering both radio and core
network technology development. Besides the Nokia MetroSite 50 WCDMA
Base Station, the Nokia Flexi WCDMA Base Station recently launched
will be made available for the China market in order to allow operators
to build their network in a totally new way, with unprecedented rapidity
and low cost.
The Nokia HSDPA solution is a software upgrade to the WCDMA 3G network
that offers end users significantly faster download speeds. Operators
upgrading their networks with the Nokia HSDPA solution can take advantage
of improved data rates and throughput, enhancing the efficiency of
the network to support a higher number of users at a lower cost per
user. The Nokia HSDPA solution allows operators to provide enhanced
end-user services at significantly lower cost per bit. Currently,
several operators are testing the first HSDPA release, showing encouraging
test results.
Later, an upgrade to High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) with
enhanced upload speeds, will be available in a similar manner. Nokia's
upload speed is today already 384 kbps. Nokia currently has over 20
HSDPA contracts, 7 of which have been published.
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