VIENNA, Austria-Mobilkom Austria, the largest Austrian wireless carrier, demonstrated High Speed Downlink Packet Access technology from Nortel Networks Ltd.
At a retail store in Vienna, the HSDPA technology supported applications such as FTP downloading, real-time television broadcasts from Austria’s GoTV and live Web cams, Nortel said. The demonstrations included both Sierra Wireless and Option data cards connected to laptop computers and the latest handsets from LG Electronics Co. Ltd.
HSDPA technology boosts UMTS network capacity to carry up to three times as much data traffic and up to twice as many wireless users per cell site than UMTS networks, Nortel said.
“Mobilkom Austria was our first UMTS customer to announce a fully deployed network. Today they are demonstrating a continuing commitment to wireless network evolution,” said Peter MacKinnon, president of GSM/UMTS for Nortel.
