HSPA laptop userMobile broadband refers to the delivery of end-user download rates of 500 kbps or more while providing full mobility and wireless access. HSPA or ‘high speed packet access’ is already enabling the delivery of commercial mobile broadband services in excess of such speeds. HSPA is now the top choice of operators looking to provide services in both urban and rural markets, since these technologies make a 5-10 fold increase in download speeds compared to the traditional DSL option. Users can access internet on their laptops, mobile phones, tablets and even their music players with this new technological breakthrough.

But mobile broadband is not about opening large email attachments or updating huge corporate databases conveniently on the go. It also provides high speed access to videos, music and other multimedia online with ease and at phenomenal download speeds.

There are some 300 mobile broadband operators in the world with more on the way. The HSPA technology is driving the mobile broadband sector and is the way of the future. Although WiMAX technologies are a leading option in the markets today, the HSPA has outnumbered the users of the old WiMAX platform by almost 8 to 1 in 2011.