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Novatel Wireless completes first dual-carrier HSPA+ data transmission
Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by Ben Robinson in Uncategorized
Novatel Wireless has announced that it has successfully completed another data transmission (see the post about 4G data here), this time over dual-carrier HSPA+, using Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM)’s MDM8220 chipset.
For those of you not in the know with the network terms, Dual-carrier HSPA+ is a network innovation that will deliver more advanced data capabilities by (surprisingly enough) banding data carrier channels together. Novatel Wireless is apparently working with operators and plans to launch commercial data devices based on the MDM8220 in the second half of 2010.
It really does shoe that there is life left in 3G as a network technology – moving from 3G to 3.5G, and now 3.75G technologies, we are already heading toward 40Mbps – which certainly does make the argument to rollout out all-new 4G network technology that much harder!
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