Comments on: 3.5G driving rapid mobile broadband growth

The number of commercial HSDPA networks launched worldwide shot up by 69 percent in 2007, a trade survey shows.

[libertyforall1776]

Apple's 1st iPhone should have been HSPA!

*nm*

[Quemannn]

shift to 4G

Korea is enjoying 4G now, while the rest of the world is moving to 3.5G now.In other words, 4G phones cannot be compatible with AT&T and Verizon networks. Sprint is test-launching 4G in Chicago, Baltimore and Washington D.C. Meantime, AT&T and Verizon adopted LTE as 4G, and LTE won't be commercially available until 2015.In USA you can hardly get a download speed of 10 Mbps even with fiber optic Internet service, while in Korea, they get a download speed of over 40 Mbps at every home.

Sprint had rejected a $5 billion investment offer from SK Telecom, which is one of the two mobile WiMAX front runners in the world. Instead, they are working with a group of companies with no WiMAX deployment experinece at all. Hope they won't run into any single trial and error in their deployment and implementation schemes.

[certworld]

This is the great opportunity for them lets see what they do now for new cell phones packages all hope for the best.