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Orange UK to accelerate HSDPA rollout
Stuart O'Brien Jun 4 2008, 10:45am
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Thirty UK cities to have 7.2Mbps within 18 months, with 14.4Mbps to follow as part of service overhaul.
Orange UK is aggressively expanding its mobile broadband offering, with 7.2Mbps HSDPA rolling out in 30 cities over the next 18 months and 'super-fast' 14.4Mbps connections available in five cities during 2009.
The push is part of a wider revamp of Orange UK announced today, encompassing end-user services and its internal organisation.
Aside from an allusion to better mobile TV and mobile web access associated with faster network speeds, the Orange re-shuffle would appear to have little immediate impact on its content services.
The company says its Orange Labs R&D units will be rolling out 'totally connected' products over the next 12 months, including laptops that can switch between Oranges fixed line and cellular data networks.
The main thrust of the revamp appears to be on improved sales channels and customer service.
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“HSDPA”
Posted by: John McKenna - Aug 28, 10:55am
Orange fail to mention which 30 cities this is available in. Do you know?
“Re: HSDPA”
Posted by: Geoff - Sep 8, 12:38am
Oh, how wonderful, with these new speeds that Orange are offering we can exceed the daily fair usage policy for data bundles in under 2 seconds, or their monthly fair usage policy on their most generous data tariff in 1 minute 10 seconds. What the hell is the point of creating the physical infratructure for your data network if you're not going to let your customers use it? Are you listening Orange?