{"id":19924,"date":"2011-04-26T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-26T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T15:07:00","slug":"real-world-43mbps-hspa-speeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/19924-real-world-43mbps-hspa-speeds.html","title":{"rendered":"Real world 43Mbps HSPA+ speeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C officially launched its 42 Mbps HSPA+ services in  Port Elizabeth on 19 April, with plans to extend their HSPA+ network upgrades  in a phased approach.<\/p>\n<p>The Cell C launch came only four days after <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/19758-43Mbps-HSPA-from-Vodacom.html\">Vodacom  announced<\/a> that they have exceeded 1,000 active 43.2 Mbps HSPA+ sites on  their network.<\/p>\n<p>But what real world speeds can consumers actually expect  using a 42Mbps HSPA+ network?<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom CTO <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/248934-Andries-Delport\">Andries Delport<\/a> explains that while peak rates  of over 40Mbps are achievable in laboratory conditions, many factors influence  the real world performance on a 43Mbps HSPA+ service like the distance from the  tower, whether you are connecting indoors and even weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/42mbps_hspa_speeds_757750617.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Delport said that subscribers can expect an average speed of  7.8Mbps while users on the edge of a cell will only see speeds of around  3Mbps.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both Cell C CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/210083-Lars-Reichelt\">Lars Reichelt<\/a> and Vodacom CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/210077-Pieter-Uys\">Pieter Uys<\/a> said that the aim of the higher network speeds is not really to boost peak  speeds, but rather to increase capacity to increase the average performance on  their broadband networks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/330220-Realistic-43Mbps-HSPA-speeds\"><strong>Real world 43Mbps HSPA+ speeds<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom, MTN and Cell C all have 42Mbps HSPA+ networks, but what speeds can you realistically expect?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}