re: HSCSD available to 90 Million subs on 32 networks (listed below)
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>> High Speed Data Communication Now Available To Over 90 Million GSM Users Worldwide
21st MAY 2001
GSMA
GSM High Speed Data service is now available to more than 90 million customers across 25 countries around the world. The service today offers customers access to a range of existing and new features and applications at much higher speeds than previously available on standard GSM, all with International Roaming where available.
Rob Conway, CEO of the GSM Association, announced today that 32 GSM networks so far have successfully implemented the feature known as High Speed Circuit Switched Data (HSCSD). "This feature enables subscribers of GSM networks to transmit and receive data at rates of up to 4 times the standard GSM rate of transmission," said Conway.
Due to the implementation of International Roaming agreements among the networks, High Speed data services can be offered to customers of these networks while traveling to other networks that provide the HSCSD service. "Thanks to International Roaming," said Conway, "the community of traveling mobile users is expected to extensively exploit the new feature, which will enable them to connect to their corporate networks and email service without the hassle of cables and plugs, and at reasonable data rates."
High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data, is part of the evolving GSM family of technologies (GSM, HSCSD GPRS, EDGE and 3GSM/W-CDMA) for digital wireless communications and is a high speed transmission technology which allows users to send and retrieve data over GSM networks at transmission speeds between 28.8kbit/sec and 43.2kbit/sec by enabling the concurrent usage of up to four traffic channels of a GSM network.
HSCSD, being mainly a software upgrade does not entail new network elements and so the GSM operator not only avoids having to redesign the network, but can also have fast implementation. However, the user does require a new handset. HSCSD does not require the user to learn an entirely new data service or technology: it is very similar to existing services, just substantially faster.
Mobile office applications, as well as web browsing and applications such as mobile navigation services and other features using maps and graphics will benefit greatly from the enhancements provided by this technology, making applications more attractive and easier to use. HSCSD enables completely new applications too, such as mobile video.
Networks That Have So Far Launched HSCSD:
Europe:
Connect, Austria
KPN Orange, Belgium;
Eurotel Praha, Czech Republic;
Tele Denmark, Denmark;
Sonofon, Denmark;
Sonera, Finland;
DNA Finland, Finland;
Cosmote, Greece;
Stet Hellas, Greece;
'E-plus' Mobilfunk ,Germany;
Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH, Germany;
Pannon GSM, Hungary;
Eircell, Ireland;
BiteGSM, Lithuania; LMT, Latvia;
Tango, Luxemburg;
Telenor, Norway;
Polkomtel, Poland;
Telecel Vodafone, Portugal;
Connex,Romania;
Mobitel d.d., Slovenia;
Telia, Sweden;
Europolitan Vodafone, Sweden;
Swisscom Mobile, Switzerland;
Orange, Switzerland;
Turkcell, Turkey;
Orange, UK
Asia Pacific:
CSL Limited, Hong Kong;
SmarTone, Hong Kong;
SingTel Mobile, Singapore;
M1,Singapore
Middle East and Africa:
Partner Communications Company, Israel;
MTN, South Africa <<
- Eric - |
