South Korea pushes mobile speeds

South Korea is well known as a nation of broadband addicts and soon the speeds people enjoy at home will be available while they are out and about.

In Seoul a technology with the formidable name of High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) is behind this boost to wireless speeds. It piggybacks on the 3G cellular networks, but HDSPA has been especially tweaked to give speeds which are about three to four times faster than regular 3G.

In South Korea it is in much wider use than most other places, and consequently it is one of the first places in the world where people are actually beginning to use it.

But the Koreans do not rest on their laurels, they have other technologies in their sights for high-speed mobile broadband.
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