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Telecommunications Ericsson works with Intel to bring HSPA to Mobile Internet Devices | Ericsson works with Intel to bring HSPA to Mobile Internet Devices |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Monday, 20 October 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Kursten Leins, Ericsson's Strategic Marketing Manager for Multimedia said: “In Australia, businesses and consumers can already purchase laptops with HSPA built-in, and this cooperation with Intel will broaden the range of devices to have mobile broadband connectivity.Featured Whitepaper
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Johan Wibergh, Senior Vice President and head of Business Unit Networks at Ericsson, said: “Ericsson continues to create one Internet and one experience for the consumer, regardless of location or device, fixed or wireless. We see great potential in embedding mobile broadband in MIDs, creating new markets in the industry. “We are very excited to work with Intel to bring together the telecom and computing industries and extend the mobile broadband ecosystem.” Anand Chandrasekher, Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager for the company’s Ultra Mobility Group said: “The Internet, with all of its richness, versatility and personalization, will forever change how we think about mobile computing “The high performance, low power and compatibility of Intel architecture, coupled with Ericsson’s 3G mobile technologies, represents one of the ways to accelerate the global adoption of a new breed of Mobile Internet Devices that provide people with more powerful, always connected Internet-based experiences.” The 3G technology is built on Ericsson’s latest generation of HSPA chipsets in small, thin modules, enabling MID manufacturers to produce very attractive end-user devices. Ericsson is optimising its module for Intel’s next-generation Moorestown platform and Moblin-based Linux operating systems. The module will work on both WCDMA/HSPA and GSM/EDGE networks worldwide. HSPA is the world's most widely deployed 3G mobile broadband technology, with 221 commercially deployed networks available around the world serving more than 60 million subscribers – a figure that Ericsson says is “increasing by 4 million per month”. As a side note about HSPA technology, Ericsson says that by 2010, 71% of mobile broadband connections are projected to be HSPA-based, which today is already on average 20 times faster than GSM/GPRS connections. Ericsson notes that “future evolution steps will increase the HSPA download speed to 42Mbps”, something we’ve already heard Australian telco Telstra promise to install by te end of 2009. Ericsson also says the upload speed of HSPA will increase to 12Mbps. HSPA networks are available on “many frequency bands ranging from 850MHz to 2.6GHz.” |
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