About HSPA

High Speed Packet Access (HSPA)^[1] is a amalgamation of two mobile telephony protocols, High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), that extends and improves the performance of existing WCDMA protocols. A further standard, Evolved HSPA (also known as HSPA+), was released late in 2008 with subsequent adoption worldwide beginning in 2010.

Quotes about HSPA

1. LTE trials will continue but operators are likely to hold off on investment in networks. We could instead see moves increasingly to HSPA+.

   In 2009 predictions: Dropping an F bomb

2. LTE trials will continue but operators are likely to hold off on investment in networks. We could instead see moves increasingly to HSPA+.

   In Telecom: 2009 predictions « News From Telecom World

3. The idea will be to offer and extension of the macro service into the home and what that does is to use the full capacity of the handset has available to it. There are lots of HSPA handsets out there now and the Blackberry. iPhones and PDA's are capable of much more than texting and calling so the triallists will be able to use high capacity, high bandwidth applications on the handsets rather that being restricted to 100/200k on the macro network and causing congestion for all other users on it. They'll be taken away from that expensive resource and put onto something the operator does not pay for himself whether it's a DSL or cable broadband connection and allows them to use as much of that capacity as they want to the handset.

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