T-Mobile flicks switch on high-speed uploads

By Nick Mansell on Tue 01 July 2008

T-Mobile dongleHSDPA mobile broadband is all well and good but when it comes to sending files from phones and laptops in tends to be a tad sluggish. Now T-Mobile has turned on what it says is the first nationwide deployment of HSUPA - that's High-Speed Uplink Packet Access - to offer upload speeds of up to 1.4Mbps - or around five times current sluggish speeds.

That should make a huge difference to people who upload phone snaps or send large files on the move. The improvements also go hand in hand with upgrades to T-Mobile's download service, with HSDPA speeds set to be upped to 7.2Mbps in Greater London and then other major cities later this year.

T-Mobile UK chief executive, Jim Hyde, said: "25 per cent of new contract customers are signing up [to mobile broadband] and we expect to quadruple our user base in 2008." To help things along it's offering a £5 discount on its £15 a month tariff for the first three months for people signing up before October.

[Telecoms.com]

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