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Story: 3.5G drives rapid mobile broadband growth

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Posted by: RichardThurston (Thursday 10 January 2008, 2:33 PM)

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Not quite as rosy

I'd love to share your optimism, J.A.Watson. HSPA is a necessary and needed expansion of the 3G networks. But, sweeping supplier propoganda aside, there really isn't as much coverage as they might have you believe. There may be 61 networks in Western Europe, but most of them are at a very early stage. And don't write off Wimax just yet. There's work going on in the UK through Freedom4, which is Intel funded, and has commercial deployments - albeit with fixed Wimax. But with the Wimax and 3G standards coming together, don't write it off just yet. It'll have a valuable role to play, even if it does end up playing second fiddle.

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