O2 Germany announced that 700 sites went live today in Southern Germany, delivering EDGE data speeds instead of the GPRS speed customers have been using when outside of 3G services. Unlike other areas where EDGE was a natural progression from GPRS, Southern Germany took the leap from 53 Kbps (GPRS) up to a UMTS network featuring HSDPA 3.6 Mbps. Only now has the carrier decided that a happy medium needs to exist for customers traveling outside of the 3G footprint.
O2 Germany also announced that 75% of its UMTS network is already upgraded to HSDPA running at 3.6 Mbps and that it plans to upgrade parts of the network to 7.2 Mbps soon. In 2009 the carrier will begin rolling out HSUPA to complete the ultimate high-speed data transformation.
Source: the::unwired
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