AT&T Says 7.2Mbps Wireless Coming This Year 141
CWmike writes "AT&T will upgrade to High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) 7.2 wireless networking technology later this year, offering faster (up to 7.2 Mbit/sec.) network speeds to new compatible laptop cards and smartphones due to be released at the same time, the company said today. Current HSPA download speeds can theoretically reach 3.6 MBit/sec, according to AT&T executives who commented on the planned upgrade in April. AT&T did not comment on which laptop cards and smartphones will be compatible with HSPA 7.2 other than to say it will introduce 'multiple' devices later this year. Could this be one of the big iPhone announcements to come from WWDC?"
Re:Wireless (Score:3, Interesting)
What about HSPA+ (Score:5, Interesting)
And they claim they'll double it by the end of the year (with multicarrier HSPA+?)
Re:Obligatory European Reply: (Score:3, Interesting)
There, feel free to be envious, rant about how AT&T are screwing the US consumers, curse us Europeans, and possibly, just possibly start the whole broadband country ranking debate again. :-)
And in the Very next post down [slashdot.org], less than a minute later...
In Australia they're getting 21Mbps from HSPA+: http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/australias-telstra-launches-hspa/2009-02-22 [fiercebroa...reless.com]
And they claim they'll double it by the end of the year (with multicarrier HSPA+?)
<keanu>Whoa.</keanu>