HSPA: Broadband heir apparent

Just as GSM has enabled two-thirds of the world’s people to make voice calls and exchange text messages, HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) is well on its way to bringing mobile broadband to more than one billion people. Within the next two years, HSPA is set to overtake ADSL to become the world’s leading broadband technology and WI forecasts that by 2013 there will be more than one billion HSPA connections worldwide.

Every month, the number of people worldwide using an HSPA device, such as a smartphone or a laptop, rises by nine million, according to the GSM Association’s research service, Wireless Intelligence (WI)...