HSPA Evolution - Boosting the performance of mobile broadband access

Abstract

Today, 84% of all reported global cellular subscribers make calls via radio access technology specifi ed by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). This signifi es that WCDMA is the predominant thirdgeneration (3G) radio network technology, and as such, represents a substantial economy of scale. In addition, the recent introduction of high-speed packet access (HSPA, 3GPP Release 6) has signifi cantly improved the performance of packet data traffi c in Ericsson products – on the downlink (HSDPA) 14Mbps, and uplink (E-UL), 1.4Mbps, giving users a mobile broadband experience that is on par with ADSL; and given rise to large increases in packet data traffi c – packet data is now the principal type of traffi c in 3G networks. •