T-Mobile USA Pitching Long Term HSPA Evolution to 3GPP

T-Mobile USA and Nokia Siemens Networks today announced that they are seeking standardization of Long Term HSPA Evolution, which they say could reach download speeds of up to 650Mbps. The companies believe that this technology can be developed to compete with Long Term Evolution Advanced as a true 4G technology. Nokia Siemens says that it already has the Radio Access Network (RAN) platform in place to support Long Term HSPA Evolution. The companies believe they could deploy Long Term HSPA Evolution for commercial use by 2013. It will be backward compatible with today's HSPA and WCDMA systems. The standard would be developed in RAN focus groups by the 3GPP.

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