There are lots of networks that won't be UMTS/HSDPA by 2009 - see all of Latin America, for example - and a simple software upgrade like this is an excellent stopgap for them. It's brilliant on the part of Ericsson, who will have plenty of EDGE-EVO handsets to sell to those networks' customers.
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alanwestenbroek @ Mar 15th 2007 6:57PM
There are lots of networks that won't be UMTS/HSDPA by 2009 - see all of Latin America, for example - and a simple software upgrade like this is an excellent stopgap for them. It's brilliant on the part of Ericsson, who will have plenty of EDGE-EVO handsets to sell to those networks' customers.