Tuesday, 7 November 2006

Nokia, SingTel Optus Conduct HSDPA Trials in Australia

Nokia's High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) solution is powering Australian telecommunications company SingTel Optus' HSDPA trials in Australia. The trials began in October in Canberra.

"These trials are just another example of Optus reviewing technologies. We are always exploring faster, better and more efficient ways to deliver services to our customers," says Warren Hardy, Managing Director, Consumer Division, Optus.

Nokia and Optus have been working together since 1992. Nokia has been the major GSM and WCDMA 3G network infrastructure supplier to Optus since 2001. Optus launched its commercial WCDMA 3G service in Australia in November 2005.

In WCDMA 3G, Nokia has 63 customers to date. High performance Nokia HSPA is a simple software upgrade to Nokia WCDMA networks, thus enabling a fast, cost-effective rollout. Nokia HSPA is made up of two key technologies, HSDPA and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), enabling mobile broadband with data speeds of up to 14.4 Mbps in the downlink and up to 5.8 Mbps in the uplink, the company said.