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HSDPA cellphones in south africa
- Thread starter nitro53
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Does anyone have a hspda cellphone here in s.a ? Its going to be better than 3G ! i saw the motorola razr v6 and the nokia n95.how good you think the coverage for hsdpa for mobile phones will be ?
I used a ZV50 Samsung around a year ago, theres alot of coverage here in JHB, but because we so far ahead of the rest of the world in terms of Data coverage, the manufacturers are still a little slow with their new products.
The Tytn alos has HSDPA
This year will see alot more HSDPA phones.
If you want to know if you have coverage, turn your "area info" on and your phone should show "HSDPA, 3G, Edge and GPRS enabled"
lilDeath
Executive Member
Samsung ZV50, Samsung Z560, HTC TyTn, Nokia N95 and some other Siemens model I cant remember are all HSDPA thus far AFAIK.Does anyone have a hspda cellphone here in s.a ? Its going to be better than 3G ! i saw the motorola razr v6 and the nokia n95.how good you think the coverage for hsdpa for mobile phones will be ?
Coverage depends on the network I guess. MTN is busy with big rollouts and I think Vodacom will also be doing more.
At the moment it is really only the big city centres that have good coverage.
In general JHB has better coverage than CT at the moment.
yup, most of those countries with HSDPA mobile internet access is around 3.6Mbps, here we only have 1.8Mbps. Bad EDGE coverage in JHB, maybe VC want to skip EDGE so jump from GPRS to WCDMA/HSDPA?
Which countries already have 3.6Mbps???
vodacom3g
Vodacom Representative
yup, most of those countries with HSDPA mobile internet access is around 3.6Mbps, here we only have 1.8Mbps. Bad EDGE coverage in JHB, maybe VC want to skip EDGE so jump from GPRS to WCDMA/HSDPA?
Which countries are running at 3.6Mb/s?
AFAIK, Vodacom today has the largest EDGE network in SA (based on the last time I saw comparative MTN/VC stats), but it's not currently evenly spread around the country. Especially Gauteng is a bit bleak.
VC definitely has the largest HSDPA network with more than 2000 base stations. Not sure how many MTN has at the moment.
Which countries already have 3.6Mbps???
If Voda has it by Aug/Sep they would be the largest HSDPA 3.6Mb network in the world....
I think.
Which countries are running at 3.6Mb/s?
AFAIK, Vodacom today has the largest EDGE network in SA (based on the last time I saw comparative MTN/VC stats), but it's not currently evenly spread around the country. Especially Gauteng is a bit bleak.
VC definitely has the largest HSDPA network with more than 2000 base stations. Not sure how many MTN has at the moment.
Here is a break down of what the rest of the world has
http://www.answers.com/topic/high-speed-downlink-packet-access