HSDPA pushing ahead
The network, based on the WCDMA technologies provided by Huawei, is the world’s first full-performance HSPDA commercial network which allows 14.4Mbps high-speed data services.
The legacy HSDPA networks support only five code words realizing data rate no more than 4Mbps, which means that the actual data rate available to the users is less than 2Mbps.
Such performance is far from the requirements to provide simultaneous high-speed access for multiple users.
The full-performance HSDPA network, however, supports up to 15 code words realizing maximum data rate of 14.4Mbps, enabling users to enjoy the real exciting 3G service experiences.
Featuring such great advancement, the launch of full-performance HSDPA network by Optimus is regarded as a milestone in the march to a new broadband age, just as Optimus CEO Luis Reis said: "The launch of the full-performance HSDPA network in Madeira proves Optimus successful effort in providing the most advanced HSDPA services in the Europe or even around the world to its users.
As an important mobile network operator in Portugal, Optimus has now started building its HSDPA network throughout the country. Before the bidding for the nationwide network, Optimus had teamed up with Huawei to utilize the total HSDPA network solution of the later to cover Madeira.
In a seperate report the mobile industry body The UMTS Forum forecasts that there will be almost one billion active users of High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) networks by 2012.
The new study also anticipates that HSPA will significantly stimulate data ARPUs, generating E56bn in annual revenues for mobile operators by 2012.
In addition, the report forecasts that total 3G mobile data revenues will increase from E17bn in 2006 to over E120bn annually in 2012.
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