UK: Vodafone outreaches mobile broadband network

Vodafone UK is extending it's HSPA coverage for mobile broadband to 6 new cities - Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Reading. This will give users downlink speeds of up to 7.2 Mb/s, with up to 1.8 Mb/s on the uplink. Right now, HSPA is only available in London and major UK airports, so it's a big step forward in the always-tricky coverage equation. Right now, the mobile broadband market (and by that I mean the market segment served by those USB 3G dongles, attached to Laptops) is extremely competitive - all the Operators now have an offering, with the dongles selling like proverbial "hot-cakes". So it's going to be interesting to see in the next few months, how the marketing battle play out in the media for download speed, cost, and coverage! [Via: silicon.com ] --- Related Articles at IntoMobile:

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