Samsung and Nortel hit 3.6Mbps down / 2Mbps up over HSUPA

Big deal, another demonstration of wireless video streaming to laptops and cellphones... we've seen that before, right? Au contraire, these devices are pumping vid over HSUPA and are on display now at ITU Telecom World in Hong Kong. Samsung and Nortel managed to squeeze a downstream data rate of 3.6Mbps out of a theoretical 5.6Mbps. Better yet, they pulled off a 2Mbps upstream rate kicking HSDPA's puny 384kbps neatly to the curb. Both rates comfortably smoke those demonstrated by Option and Nortel earlier in the year. Yeah, we knew the demonstration was coming, but with HSUPA networks going hot in 2007 -- notably with Orange in Europe -- isn't it nice to see the first glimpse of a laptop snuggled up to a new SGH-G630 HSUPA handset we might someday be holding?

[Via AVING and Telecoms Korea]

[LikesGadgetsWillTravel @ Dec 5th 2006 12:12PM]

I'd pay $100/month for that service in a heartbeat. Especially if I can do VOIP and all kinds of other goodies while at home... never mind on the road.

[oki @ Dec 5th 2006 6:51PM]

Dang, i would like that on my treo.

[Sam @ Dec 5th 2006 7:09PM]

kick ass!!!! better video quality and internet browsing.

[Squirrel @ Dec 6th 2006 1:15PM]

You sure they didn't use a combination? High Speed UPLINK Packet Access shouldn't affect Downlink speed...

[BoundlessSecurity.com @ Dec 7th 2006 3:53PM]

Those fast peak uplink and downlink rates sound great, but there's no other traffic so those high speeds won't last. There's a fundamental cellular wearout mechanism that clobbers uplinks in 5 to 10 seconds when there's much congestion. Besides, which wireless carriers really want you to continuously move lots of video either up or down, and eat all their capacity ?