T-Mobile & HSDPA from the summer!

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Well, in Germany at least. However, if they're going to have it running there within the next 4 months I'd expect to see the UK hot on the heels. All the operators know that the UK has the best take up of new mobile technologies, so send some HSDPA our way!

T-Mobile, Thursday said that its high-speed third-generation wireless services will become broadly available in Germany as of summer 2006.

The service uses HSDPA technology - which speeds-up third-generation networks to speeds above the average home fixed-line broadband Internet speed - and will become available in spring 2006 in some areas in Germany.

"High-speed (3G) will also be available from summer 2006 in areas where T-Mobile Germany already offers (3G) coverage," T-Mobile said in a statement. T-Mobile has almost countrywide 3G coverage.

The company also said that it is pressing ahead with the development of HSDPA-capable hardware. Together with computer-maker Fujitsu Siemens, partly owned by German engineering firm Siemens, T-Mobile said it expects to offer the first HSDPA-enabled laptop computer in the second quarter of 2006.

In a separate statement, T-Mobile said it will launch a cheaper flat-rate tariff for mobile data transmission that will cost EUR35 a month and EUR1 for each day of use.

Company Web site: http://www.t-mobile.de

http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15912.php

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" In a separate statement, T-Mobile said it will launch a cheaper flat-rate tariff for mobile data transmission that will cost EUR35 a month and EUR1 for each day of use"

So maybe the ass would like to explain why UK users are screwed for high data charges! Regardless of the network