HSDPA Technology Reaches the 100 Network Mark

• Africa: Namibia, South Africa, and Tanzania
• Americas: Canada, Chile, Puerto Rico and USA
• APAC: Australia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan
• Europe: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Madeira, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and UK
  (HSDPA is commercially available in 25 of the 27 EU countries)
• Middle East: Bahrain, Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and UAE

75 of 147 HSDPA operators are also using GSM/ EDGE for better service quality. Some have also announced HSUPA or mobile broadband uplink capability as well.  Over 220 handset models now support HSDPA technology, with 160 of these just being announced over the last six months. 

What is HSDPA technology?  HSDPA stands for High Speed Downlink Packet Access, and is a 3G mobile telephony protocol that is part of the UMTS standard.  It supports 1.8 Mbit/s, 3.6 Mbit/s, 7.2 Mbit/s and 14.4 Mbit/s in downlink, and is expected to support 42Mbit/sec in the next release.  It also greatly enhances network capacity.