Ericsson squeezes out 56Mbps from HSPA+

And here we were envious of the 21Mbps HSPA+ service currently offered by Telstra in Australia. Now we hear that Ericsson will be demonstrating its 56Mbps HSPA multi-carrier MIMO technology at CTIA (using a router, not handset) later this week with scheduled deployment set for 2010. By the end of 2009, Ericsson claims that it will support 42Mbps commercial deployments. All this assumes that carriers hold steady with HSPA and don't jump straight to LTE or WiMax... ok, LTE.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 11:38AM]

I find it interesting how this stuff evolves ... 3G comes out and then Ericsson takes EDGE to the next level. 4G is coming out, and now 3.5G is advancing. It's like the GSMA never waits for the maturity of their standards before they introduce another one. In terns of this vs. LTE, who cares what the underlying technology is, as long as you're clipping along at more than 10Mbps?