Ericsson demos 42Mbps HSPA Evolution for the laypeople
By Darren Murph 
posted December 17th 2009 11:08AM
posted December 17th 2009 11:08AM
Talk about making good on a promise... and then some. Back in March, Ericsson proudly proclaimed that it would be able to make 21Mbps look like child's play by reaching 28Mbps before the dawn of 2010, and now the company is tooting its horn once more after demonstrating 42Mbps equipment to common folk over in Stockholm, Sweden. Reportedly, it's the planet's first 42Mbps HSPA achievement on commercial products, and better still, it's now available for mass deployment. Unfortunately, details beyond that were few and far between -- we're guessing Ericsson just needed an avenue to gloat -- but we suspect carriers like Telstra will be pushing out their own releases once the upgrades start rolling out. Granted, we've seen mobile data rates tickle the 42Mbps mark before, but those showcases were hardly ready for public consumption. Meanwhile, Verizon and AT&T are spending bundles arguing about their comparatively glacial "3G networks." Way to go, America.
Yup Telstra is already running trials of 42mbit in Sydney and is in the process of preparing to upgrade the network software. Early 2010 seems likely but they will wait for modems that support it.
ITwire has a good article on it.
Here is the link
http://mobile.itwire.com/content/view/30127/127
Im tired of all the tiny increases in tech that comes out every year. Bottom line is you have a great product.. you dont NEED TO ADVERTISE!! If you try to cut corners here and there.. then guess what.. your gonna have to push what you DO have.. while the competition will try and expose what you were cheap with... ex. Verizon apparently has MORE 3g coverage than AT&T....while AT&T has less 3g coverage but for what it has its apparently faster. Now if AT&T would spend there advertising money on I dont know say more 3g towers.. and verizon on the quality of their network.. maybe we would have less to argue about and more choices on quality service....just my 2 cents
@no6969el Or just get Sprint :).
@no6969el I think you missed the point of this story. They should start investing on upgrading to 4G. Devices that support it will be available and even if they don't get 42Mbps, it would still be an improvement over what they have now.
@Doh
I actually just saw what other countries where gonna get and then expressed anger with what our american counterparts are doing. What I was saying applies to that theory, they should be spending money making quality products.. let that be 4g, lte, wimax and so on. I have tmobile and whats next for us is the new 4g with Comcast.. I hate comcast so maybe they can change my view on them....
@no6969el Anger over what? That they're demoing a 4G network? It doesn't mean next week 4G is going to be rolled out. It'll probably be rolled out around the world close to the same time that Verizon/AT&T/T-Mobile rolls out their 4G network - 2011. The U.S. is going to be one of the first countries to have 4G rolled out since Sprint has been pretty aggressive with their rollout.
@Xudd Anger that we are soo focused on 4g when the technology exists for like what this article is conveying for so much faster mobile internet. I mean I look at it like this, im with Tmobile.. and they will be teaming with comcast to provide 4g, well they arent even going to be testing it for another 18 months... its crazy when companies like the above article are allready testing that!
Ahhh. Some of you mob seem more locked into marketing terms vs actual network.
4G is a marketing term, let it go, Telstra calls their network "Next G" and often inferred it was somehow better than UMTS/HSPA. HSPA+ which is an actual thing is already scheduled for +80mbit.
As for yer Sprint/Verzion CDMA/EVDO networks... Ahh sigh, I think I might leave you with yer marketed fantasies.
Yep- I wish a judge would smack both VZ and ATT upside the head something like this:
"Hey, dipshits, if you spent a fraction of the money you spend on ridiculous litigation and shitty cry baby advertising, you'd actually have a network to compete with. Also, stop dicking over consumers."
in america, it will all comedown to sprint(clearwire) wimax technology.
by the time at&t and verizon manage to make their lte available sprint will have 3/4 of US covered by wimax.
@jayminho Wimax is slooow... that's the only letdown.
@(Unverified) It's only slow in it's current launch configuration. Once they flip the switch to 802.16m it will be in the 100mbps range just like LTE.
Wow, when was the last time that just Ericsson without Sony has graced these pages!
@(Unverified)
yesterday:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/15/ericsson-trials-hspa-lte-interoperability-we-count-7-gs-in-tota/
and the day before:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/teliasonera-launches-worlds-first-lte-network-awaits-phones-ea/2
Of course Sweden is just about the size of California... A bit smaller and easier to roll out than say a network that covers all of the US... When they roll it out to all of Europe then let's compare.
@jafoman
It's really a software upgrade, not a hardware upgrade so it's not so much an issue of how big the target country is.
Then again. Supposing you are in a country that still lacks a national UMTS/HSPA network and what network that exists is behind a few generations... Well in that case it will be a long time for rollout.
Thankfully this isn't an issue unless you are American
/end cheeky dig at the suffering Americans
Pointless to have speeds that make you hit your limit after 6 minutes really, so this isn't suitable for the US, and many other places.
I'll admit, I wouldn't put it past cell phone companies to fix technology increases to save money, but you also gotta realize how many people are in the US. There's a lot more area to cover, and in a lot of these plans with super high end mobile broadband, they have a very small area to cover.
I don't think it's fair to compare a country with 9 million people in 175 thousand square miles to a country with over 300 million people in 3.8 million square miles. This goes for many of these island chains and small European countries that have these HSPA+ networks. It's just not fair to compare to the US.
@kenny goo
Ohhh. And Australia, nearly as big as the USA with less than a tenth the possible subscribers paying for the network to be rolled out.
Economies of scale eh, nah. It's slackness. The problem in the USA isn't land mass or people. It's that you mob didn't start rolling out a UMTS/HSPA network until 2007. Australia started in 2002. You mob are 5 years behind In roll out plain and simple.
@(Unverified)
The US is 3.8 million square miles large, while Australia is 2.9 million square miles. That's not even close. The bigger point is that the US has over 300 million people, while Australia barely has 22 million. Not only that, but the population density is so drastically different. Most of the population in Australia resides in the East and South East.
http://www.worldbook.com/wb/content/na/img/logo-for-ghosting.gif
The US on the other hand is not only a significantly larger mass, but the population is spread out all over the place. That means they have to implement these networks all over the country, not just on one coast line.
http://www.mapofusa.net/us-population-map.gif
It's simple logic. It's easier to deploy an HSPA network in AU then it is to do it in the US. That's a fact. It doesn't matter when they started. I get what you're saying here, but realistically it doesn't matter in the large scheme of things.
Am the only one that noticed the photoshopped macbook on the right?
You guys that are complaining about the fact that Sweden is smaller than the US did get the fact that the post was about Ericsson producing the technology for allowing this in their 3G equipment right?
Noone wrote that Ericsson had rolled this out to all of sweden (they doesn't have a network to roll out to).
Yay. Now you can use up your 5GB "unlimited" data limit in little over 16 minutes.
hasnt japan already hit 100 mbps on prototype
For the dude who think that Sony has anything to do with Ericssons server and telecom technology has wrong. It was only Ericssons cellphone division who merged with Sonys cellphone division. And for all the Sweden haters out there. Fuck you, just because your infrastructure suck doesn't mean it's because the country is big or you have more citizens. And limited bandwidth, thats a big question mark for me. Never heard about it. hahahahahah Sweden rules
What is 42 Mbit/sek good for if I'm reduced to 64 kbit/sek after producing 300 Mb of traffic with my beloved carrier T-Mobile? The *theoretical* bandwidth could be 500 Tb/sek and it wouldnt make a real difference. The real difference is that the monthly costs will increase again when this technology is available in 2027 without good reason.