Posted on Friday, July 24th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
The State of Wireless Broadband: 225M Subscribers & Growing
GigaOM
We all know that in a few years, Long Term Evolution (LTE), the 4G wireless broadband technology being embraced by mobile carriers across the world, is going to rule the airwaves, becoming an important way for us to connect to the Internet. But for now, it seems HSPA, aka High Speed Packet Access, the 3G wireless broadband technology, rules the planet. HSPA is a common term used to embrace all acronyms for HSDPA and HSUPA as well as HSPA+. Some estimate that there will be a whopping 250 million wireless broadband subscribers by the end of 2009. And an overwhelming majority of them will be using HSPA-based wireless broadband. According to the GSM Association (GSMA) there will be 150 million HSPA connections worldwide by the end of the summer. There are 300 HSPA networks in 127 countries and about 1,500 HSPA devices, GSMA estimates.
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