Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Nokia seeks HSDPA mobile technology as mainstream telecom standard: top official

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Nokia Corp., a Finland-based telecom giant, will seek HSDPA as its mainstream next-generation communications standard, a top company official said Tuesday.

HSDPA stands for high-speed downlink packet access, known as a 3.5-generation mobile technology. It can transmit data at a maximum speed of 14 megabits per second, allowing customers to watch live TV and access other mobile broadband services via their handsets.

Currently, South Korean companies are leading the sector. In June, SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, launched the service in some of the country’s major cities.

“We are going to play in both HSDPA and WiMax (wireless Internet). We believe both have a role. But from our standpoint, clearly the main stream mass market technology is HSDPA,” said Dipankar Dasgupta, chief technology officer of Nokia Network, one of Nokia’s key businesses.

WiMAX is Intel Corp’s technology that also allows for wireless Internet links. In June, South Korea launched its own version of WiMax, called WiBro, which experts argue has overlapping functions with HSDPA.

Dasgupta made the remarks at a press conference held on the sidelines of the iMOBICON 2006 Korea, which kicked off earlier in the day.

“There are and will be several wireless broadband technologies. Some of them will be mainstream, others swill be niche. We belive that HSDPA is our own mainstream wireless broadband.

“The reason is that… it is not always the superiority of technologies that makes difference. It is an ecosystem that is present around certain technologies,” he said, referring to the GSM (global standard for mobile communications) infrastructure in which the company is leading the world.

He said it will be easier to make a transition toward HSDPA from GSM since most of the existing infrastructure could be reused for the new technology, while guaranteeing seamless service to customers