Vodafone Climbing HSPA Technology tree: Portugal will push HSPA

C114 Beijing Time February 3 Morning News (SHANGMU) The world's first LTE business network was opened in northern Europe at the last quarter of 2009, but the vast majority of European operators are still honestly climbing the HSPA tree of Evolution Technology, will launch the LTE business in the time of 2012 to 2013,　　Instead of just skipping over HSPA.　　Vodafone Portugal announced that it would complete the deployment of 3GPP R8 standard HSPA technology on its network by May 2010, with the goal of launching a commercial 43.2Mbps HSPA upgrade business by the end of the year, with related equipment deployed by Ericsson and Qualcomm recently.　　The 43.2Mbps HSPA upgrade announcement, completed in the second quarter of 2010, was released after Vodafone Portugal successfully demonstrated the 43.2Mbps peak downlink rate, and also said the uplink rate was up to 11Mbps.　　While Vodafone Portugal's network is expected to be upgraded in the second quarter of 2010, its first compatible USB device will be commercially available by the end of 2010, and the first 43Mbps-backed handset could be extended to mid-2011. Vodafone Portugal launched its HSPA service as early as June 2009, offering a peak rate of up to 21.6Mbps and downlink 5.7Mbps, becoming the first supplier in Portugal to provide HSPA data services.　　Prior to this February, HSPA Data conferencing services were started for enterprise customers.　　At present, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia Siemens and other mainstream suppliers can provide support to the 42Mbps HSPA upgrade solution. Vodafone Climbing HSPA Technology tree: Two or three years without considering LTE relative LTE,HSPA technology itself is also evolving--hspa+ R7 has commercial, peak rate of downlink 28Mbps, uplink 11mbps;r8 in 2010 commercial, downlink 42Mbps, uplink 11Mbps , the future R9 can reach at least 84Mbps downlink, up 23Mbps.　　This allows operators to remain focused on deploying HSPA for the time being.　　Colao Vittorio Colao, Vodafone's chief executive, said at the company's semi-annual earnings meeting that it was not in a hurry to deploy the LTE network. "We may start deploying LTE by the end of 2011 or 2012, and HSPA will be adequate to meet demand over the next two or three years," he said.　　He said Vodafone would continue to refine its existing 3G network to reach 56Mbps. Although Vodafone has been testing LTE with Huawei in the German 790-862mhz digital dividend band, its main aim is to provide wireless broadband services to rural areas, only as a DSL replacement.