The success of HSPA systems continues and there is growing momentum towards the evolved version of the technology - HSPA+, which was largely specified in 3GPP Release 7.

A recent report from the GSA highlights the contribution of dual carrier or dual cell technology (DC-HSPA+) towards delivering 42 Mbps, using 64QAM modulation and using dual adjacent carriers.

GSA have reported that there are now 245 HSPA+ devices available, compared to 92 just a year ago.

1st March 2012, Barcelona

Building on their successful stream at last years’ event, the GSMA and the NGMN - both Partners in 3GPP - have announced their “Technology Evolution” stream, to be held during the Mobile World Congress, on the 1st March 2012.

The session is described as an "opportunity to discuss with industry leaders the experiences of successful deployments as well as the development of architecture and operations towards highly efficient, smart mobile broadband networks."

Balazs Bertenyi, the 3GPP SA Chairman, will be present to give a status report on Release 11 and an overview of the Priorities for 2012.

Article published 6th february, 2012

For some time now, one of the biggest problems with LTE is the lack of support for traditional mobile phone services like voice calls, text messages, multimedia messages, and various other systems implemented on traditionally circuit-switched systems.

Without a system to handle traditional phone services, LTE cannot replace current 2G and 3G networks. . .