Cingular plans UMTS/HSDPA trial
Cingular Wireless has announced plans for a field trial of Lucent Technologies’ UMTS and High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) gear in Atlanta this summer.
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The announcement, Cingular’s first commitment to further mobile data deployment beyond its expanding EDGE coverage, comes just two days after Stan Sigman, president and CEO of Cingular Wireless, hinted at the Lehman Bros. Global Wireless Conference that the carrier was about to accelerate its 3G plans.
"UMTS is something that we couldn’t plan for commercially without the spectrum that our merger [the pending acquisition of AT&T Wireless] will give us," Sigman told the Lehman crowd earlier this week.
This summer’s trial will use spectrum in the 1.9 Ghz band, and end-to-end network equipment from Lucent, including the vendor’s Merlin U520 UMTS PC modem cards, which were developed by Lucent and Novatel Wireless.
HSDPA, which potentially could allow data rates of up to 14 Mb/s, is a software-only upgrade from Lucent’s UMTS gear, according to Lucent.
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