DoCoMo Delays HSDPA Rollout
NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan’s largest mobile carrier, has delayed an upgrade to its 3G (third-generation) network, the company said on Tuesday. The company will test its HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) network this year but will not roll out a commercial service based on the technology before April, DoCoMo president Masao Nakamura said at the company’s financial news conference in Tokyo.
HSDPA is an addition to the WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) 3G (third-generation) network and provides speeds of up to 14M bps (bits per second) compared to the maximum 384k bps offered on WCDMA 3G networks. Full story Here.