Acer is deploying up to 65,000 notebooks with the Queensland Department of Education and Training (DET) after the company won a tender in round three of the national secondary school computer fund.

South East Water, one of Melbourne's three water retailers owned by the Victorian Government, has selected NetComm to supply HSPA machine-to-machine (M2M) routers for the remote monitoring and control of sewerage pumps in an area from the south east of Melbourne to South Gippsland.

According to a new research report, HSPA/LTE accounted for 20.6% of the total number of broadband connections in Europe at the end of 2010, and wireless broadband penetration is growing at a spectacular rate.

Huawei is claiming three 'world firsts' with its new multimode USB dongles and a WiMAX/HSPA Android 2.2 handset.

So much nonsense has been written about the so-called 4G versus NBN debate that it seems that everyone except some serious telecoms pundits have overlooked a key fact – the NBN is still years away.  Therefore, the debate is really 4G versus DSL, a debate that looks to start heating up very soon.

Over coffee not long ago, a friend chided me over my NBN skepticism with a leading question “what’s the best way to connect to the net?” I conceded that a fibre connection would be fastest. “That’s it, do it once, do it right!” he exclaimed with a grin, as he continued checking his email on his iPhone over 3G.

The new super fast mobile broadband technology LTE (long term evolution) is tipped to take-off worldwide in 2012 but the existing 3G standard HSPA will continue to dominate for many years to come, according to new research.

Ericsson has released what it says is the first embedded HSPA modem to support 21Mbps downstream bandwidth, and a new version of its 7.2Mbps product with half the power usage of its predecessor.

3G Americas has published a useful report on the evolution of mobile wireless technologies, which points out that there is no current technology that meets the requirements of 4G; and which highlights the challenges in extracting ever more bandwidth from wireless systems.

Nokia is selling its wireless modem business to Japanese chipmaker, Renesas Electronics Corporation for $US200m along with 1,100 employees and the two will form an alliance to develop modem technologies for HSPA+/LTE and its evolution.