Vodafone gets HSDPA, Orange goes EDGE in UK
UK wireless carriers Vodafone and Orange have
both announced upgrades to their data services, with Vodafone beginning HSDPA trials and Orange enabling the
less-exciting 2.5G EDGE in certain areas. One hundred central London firms are trialing the high-speed service for
Voda, with general London rollouts scheduled over the summer and other major UK cities and towns hooked up by the end
of the year. Orange, meanwhile, is throwing a bone to those folks who won't see 3G for a long while, in the form of 300
EDGE-enabled cell sites in what we assume must be outlying and rural areas. 1500 sites will be live by the end of the
year, but to put this rollout in perspective, the network will reach just one-eighth of Orange's UK customers.Read- Vodafone
Read- Orange
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Rostislav @ Mar 11th 2006 4:52AM
Surprisingly, but the Bulgarian mobile operator MTel has already launched HSDPA. I think the fifth operator in the world to do that, which kinda surprised me...