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13th April - TeliaSonera Sweden is now launching tests of
a new high-speed mobile broadband network. In areas of Stockholm
and Gothenburg, the mobile network has been enhanced with
new High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technology, also called
Turbo 3G, which gives customers wireless Internet connections
that are almost ten times faster than connection speeds in
the ordinary 3G network.
All Telia customers in the test areas can connect via Turbo
3G if they have a mobile telephone or portable computer with
PC card that is HSPA-enabled. With the new technology, it
will be faster and simpler for customers to connect wirelessly
with their computer and surf, send messages and documents
or download music, images and films.
“We are seeing how more and more customers want faster
wireless broadband in order to ‘take the Internet’
with them so they can perform tasks that they usually do at
home or at the office,” says Håkan Dahlström,
Head of Mobility Services in TeliaSonera Sweden. “A survey
of our customers indicated that Stockholmers have the highest
expectations among people in Sweden for being able to connect
wirelessly in parks and other outdoor areas. With Turbo 3G,
we can now offer them even better possibilities for realising
this.”
During the trial period, which runs until this autumn, customers
using Turbo 3G will pay the rates included in the regular
price list for mobile data service.
The Telia Trend Report 2007 indicated that more than one
of out three people in Stockholm expect to be able to use
wireless Internet connections in parks or other outdoor areas,
followed immediately by people living in the southwest province
of Skåne, and in western Norrland, who have almost the
same high expectations for wireless outdoor connections.
TeliaSonera has been offering speeds up to 384 Kbps in its
mobile network since earlier. During 2007, the entire GSM
network will be enhanced with EDGE technology, which will
give customers speeds of approximately 200 Kbps almost anywhere
in Sweden. Today, 75 percent of TeliaSonera’s Swedish
mobile network is equipped with EDGE. The mobile network is
currently being built out and will cover 90 percent of the
country’s land area by the end of 2008.
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