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7th March 2006 - T-Mobile Germany is stepping
on the gas in the broadband-communications field: high-speed
is the key word in T-Mobile’s integrated broadband strategy
in 2006. Germany’s leading mobile provider is using innovative
mobile technology to give customers the fastest possible access
to emails, websites and intranet applications while on the
move. Starting after CeBIT 2006, high-speed UMTS based on
HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) technology will
be accelerating mobile data transmission to initially 1.8
megabits per second (Mbit/s) in many parts of the T-Mobile
UMTS network. Parallel to this, EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates
for GSM Evolution) - the new performance dimension in the
nationwide GPRS network - supports mobile data transfer at
up to four times the speed of ISDN. Furthermore, T-Mobile
is consistently increasing the number of HotSpot locations
where customers can work online via W-LAN (Wireless Local
Area Network).
The aim is to enable customers to be online all the time,
automatically in the fastest mobile network, without interruption
when changing from one network to another, and at reasonable,
transparent prices. T-Mobile is systematically extending the
existing network infrastructure in order to offer customers
the advantages of mobile broadband technology practically
everywhere and any time. One essential element of T-Mobile’s
network strategy is HSDPA. By May 2006, this data-turbo will
be providing mobile Internet connections as fast as on your
home computer or your office PC throughout the T-Mobile UMTS
network. T-Mobile will eventually increase the transmission
bandwidth to 7.2 Mbit/s as the system is further extended.
3.6 megabits per second should be reached by the end of this
year.
Not only with HSDPA does T-Mobile offer its customers top-quality
mobile data communications. T-Mobile also ensures fast data
connections in places that are not yet reached by the UMTS
network. With EDGE technology T-Mobile is "reboring"
the nationwide GPRS network, reaching transmission rates up
to four times that of ISDN. EDGE should be available throughout
T-Mobile’s German GPRS network by the end of 2007. Another
building block of T-Mobile’s high-performance infrastructure
is W-LAN technology at T-Mobile’s and T-Com’s HotSpots.
Customers can already use the advantages of broadband Internet
communications at over 5,000 locations all over the country.
In addition, T-Mobile has also turned the first German InterCity
Express trains into travelling HotSpots.
T-Mobile’s integrated network, service and tariff portfolio
also includes its growing range of mobile devices supporting
high-speed communications. These include, for example, the
web’n’walk Card compact - which will be available
from April 2006 - and the web’n’walk Card W-LAN.
After CeBIT, the web’n’walk Card W-LAN will support
not only the use of GPRS, but also data exchange by high-speed
UMTS. From the early summer of 2006, the PDA phone MDA Vario
II and the Smartphone BenQ-Siemens EF91 will expand T-Mobile’s
portfolio of offers - with what will be the first HSDPA-capable
mobile phones.
During CeBIT, T-Mobile will already be offering additional
software for mobile Internet access via one of the T-Mobile
data cards for laptops - "Speedmanager plus" supporting
downloads at even higher surfing speeds. Speedmanager plus
compresses the transmitted data, thus improving the surfing
experience - the surfing speed is almost doubled. Speedmanager
plus will be fully integrated with the next automatic update
of the TMCC (T-Mobile Communication Center) data-card software.
Speedmanager plus will be available for downloading on March
9 from www.t-mobile.de/speedmanage
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