{"id":547463,"date":"2005-12-08T06:27:08","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T06:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547463-cingular-launches-hsdpa-network-in-us.html"},"modified":"2005-12-08T06:27:08","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T06:27:08","slug":"cingular-launches-hsdpa-network-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547463-cingular-launches-hsdpa-network-in-us.html","title":{"rendered":"CINGULAR LAUNCHES HSDPA NETWORK IN US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Customers can use the third-generation (3G) network to access Cingular BroadbandConnect, which is available to nearly 35 million people in 52 communities throughout the United States. The company will continue to extend the network rapidly next year.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Stan Sigman, Cingular\u2019s president and CEO, announced the service at an investor conference in New York City: \u201cMake no mistake about it, Wireless users want the speed and services they\u2019ve come to expect from their wired connections. And today Cingular is delivering on its promises to provide both the speed and reliability customers need.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Cingular\u2019s 3G network is the first widely available service in the world to use HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) technology. HSDPA is the high-speed evolution of GSM\/EDGE (Global System for Mobile Communication\/Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution), which shares a common core network. GSM is the world\u2019s most popular wireless technology, which is used by more than one billion people in 210 countries.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cWe\u2019re giving customers the ability to securely access information and applications at broadband speeds in the office, on the road or at home. With our 3G service, almost any spot in a city is a hot spot,\u201d said Ralph de la Vega, chief operating officer for Cingular Wireless.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cBroadbandConnect complements our national high-speed EDGE data service, offering customers the flexibility and ubiquity required to be more productive as the world continues to go wireless.\u201d <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Cingular BroadbandConnect is a super-charged enhancement to the company\u2019s nationwide EDGE network, the nation\u2019s largest wireless high-speed data network. When coupled with a compatible device and service plan, the service provides average mobile data connections between 400-700Kbps (kilobits per second) on the downlink and bursts to more than a megabit per second.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Unlike services offered by some wireless companies, BroadbandConnect does not drop a session when the user is outside the coverage area. Cingular said the laptop modem cards are dual-band HSDPA\/UMTS (Universal Mobile Telephone System) (850\/1900Mhz) and backward compatible with EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution) and GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) in four bands (850\/900\/1800\/1900Mhz), so the session is seamlessly transferred to the company\u2019s nationwide EDGE network or a data network of one of its roaming partners.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cHSDPA\/UMTS gives us the singular advantage of offering simultaneous voice and data services to our customers.For businesses and consumers, this means more feature rich services and content,\u201d said Kris Rinne, chief technology officer for Cingular. \u201cIt also provides a lower cost method for carrying traffic and more efficient use of spectrum.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cingular Wireless has launched its wireless network capable of providing customers with high-speed access to the internet using HSDPA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547463"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}