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Cornered! Nokia's back down on Intel embedded HSDPA deal questionable
Cornered! Nokia's back down on Intel embedded HSDPA deal questionable | Nokia's back down on Intel embedded HSDPA deal questionable |
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| Written by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 15 February 2007 | |
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Page 1 of 2 This rings hollow given how little time has elapsed since the deal was announced with great enthusiasm and given the rapid uptake of HSDPA even in that short time. When the deal was announced on 27 September 2006, Heikki Tenhunen, head of Nokia's connectivity module business program, said: "This collaboration is good news for notebook users as cellular technology offers superior connectivity and mobility for notebook and other portable device users. This is also a natural area for Nokia's multiradio expertise to expand to...An important aspect in bringing an HSDPA connectivity module to notebooks is the fact that 3G is the fast wireless broadband technology which is available for consumers today in a large number of countries in different continents. We believe that 3G connectivity will develop to a strong wireless wide area network mobile connectivity option for notebook computers." So what has changed? Certainly not the expected uptake of HSDPA. 3G Americas just this week announced that of the 151 commercial UMTS networks, 95 are already offering HSDPA. "It is expected that by 2009 there will be more than a half a billion 3G UMTS/HSPA customers and by 2011 that customer base will reach one billion," it said. The GSM Assocation last month was reporting similar good news. "There are now 142 operators committed to deploy HSDPA in 65 countries, of which 96 networks have already launched commercial services. HSDPA is now commercially available in 53 countries, including 25 of the 27 countries which make up the European Union, as well as in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and the Middle East. At least 29 of these support speeds up to 3.6Mbps. |
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