AT&T to add HSUPA this year
by Chris Ziegler 
posted Mar 29th 2007 at 4:09PM
Not to be outdone by the impending reality of nationwide EV-DO Rev. A from both Sprint and Verizon, AT&T's apparently felt enough heat to come clean with its intentions for an HSUPA launch. The technology -- the second half of the equation in GSM's HSPA 3.5G strategy, the first being HSDPA -- works the same magic for uplink speeds that HSDPA did for downlink, giving users uploads in the 1.5Mbps range. For the record, users of AT&T's present HSDPA network get hooked up with plain ol' UMTS uplink speeds in the high 300kbps range, so needless to say, this is an upgrade we can throw our support behind. Look for AT&T to roll out the requisite software upgrades to its equipment over the course of 2007, with the first compatible modems hitting midyear. Hint, hint: ExpressCards, AT&T. Please.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
s @ Mar 29th 2007 9:41PM
are there know same speed as sprint/verizion?
Pete @ Mar 29th 2007 7:54PM
yay for hsupa...actually maybe they should concentrate on bringing 3g to cities like Los Angeles and Denver before upgrading the rest of their network.
Josh @ Mar 29th 2007 6:08PM
I really hope this means that they will be getting the HTC Kaiser since not only does it have 8525 goodness but GPS as well, and is HSUPA compatible. Guess I will onto my 8125 for a little longer!!
Frankenstein Black @ Mar 30th 2007 10:14AM
HTC Kaiser is Doooooope! Oh, you forgot to mention the angled slide and WM6 :P...