T-Mobile tries to rob Vodafone of "first HSDPA in UK" title

Apparently looking to steal some of Vodafone's thunder in their home country, T-Mobile went ahead and soft-launched its HSDPA service in the UK on Tuesday of this week — a full two days before the other guys. Like Voda, T-Mobile is initially launching on laptop cards only, with handsets promised later in the year. The announcement is a bit confusing, saying that T-Mobile is offering the "first live UK mobile HSDPA network, already covering 65% of UK population," while also stipulating that commercial availability doesn't start for customers of its web'n'walk service until August 1; we're not sure whether the launch announcement was hastily thrown together just for the bragging rights or it's all just a coincidence, but either way, our friends across the pond are suddenly finding themselves flush with speedy mobile broadband.

[Via cellular-news]