Vodafone gets HSDPA, Orange goes EDGE in UK
UK wireless carriers Vodafone and Orange have both announced upgrades to their data services, with Vodafone beginning HSDPA trials and Orange enabling the less-exciting 2.5G EDGE in certain areas. One hundred central London firms are trialing the high-speed service for Voda, with general London rollouts scheduled over the summer and other major UK cities and towns hooked up by the end of the year. Orange, meanwhile, is throwing a bone to those folks who won't see 3G for a long while, in the form of 300 EDGE-enabled cell sites in what we assume must be outlying and rural areas. 1500 sites will be live by the end of the year, but to put this rollout in perspective, the network will reach just one-eighth of Orange's UK customers.
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