AT&T now covers 80% of its network with HSPA+2010-11-18 10:16 by DanielaTags: AT&T, HSPA
AT&T CTO John Donovan said the carrier has upgraded 80 percent of its network to HSPA+ technology, and is trying to keep pace with a mobile data traffic surge of 3,000 percent over the past three years. Speaking to developers at the Sencha Conference in San Francisco, Donovan said the volume of data traffic AT&T is transmitting has slowed in recent months, but is still growing at 30 times what it was three years ago. "If you look in absolute numbers, it's still a tremendous growth rate," Donovan said, according to IDG News Service. In addition to adding faster HSPA+ radio technology, AT&T has been upgrading fiber backhaul links to its cell sites, Donovan said. The carrier's 80 percent figure is notable because T-Mobile USA has been rolling out HSPA+ on its network and marketing the service as "4G"-something AT&T has taken exception to. T-Mobile plans to cover 100 markets and 200 million POPs with HSPA+ by year-end. AT&T, for its part, expects to cover 250 million POPs with HSPA+ by year-end. Further, AT&T plans to launch LTE service by the middle of next year and cover 70-75 million POPs with LTE by the end of 2011. Read more -here-
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