Telecom And Phone

The global communications industry body GSM Association (GSMA) said today that in order to meet growing customer demand, is expected in 2010, global major mobile operators for wireless broadband technology, capital investment will reach 72 billion U.S. dollars the maximum.

GSMA believes that this year’s major global mobile operators for the expansion of mobile network infrastructure in all capital expenditures, approximately half will be used for wireless broadband technology investments The investment in this area increased 15% compared with 2009.

GSMA quoted Deutsche Bank (Deutsche Bank) of the relevant statistical data, said district as the standard, is expected this year’s Asia-Pacific region for wireless broadband, the total capital expenditure of up to 34 billion U.S. dollars, in North America up to 19 billion U.S. dollars, the highest in Europe up to 140 billion U.S. dollars. GSMA director of technology Dan Wolun (Dan Warren), said: “In addition, HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) technology, also will show a substantial amount of investment growth potential.”

The so-called wireless broadband, refers to the use technical standards HSPA mobile data connectivity services. The service can also handle voice calls and data transmission. In other words, mobile phone users to call the process, the same can be connected to the Internet. Warren said: “It is envisaged the end of this year, the global number of HSPA connections will be nearly 340 million monthly additional HSPA connections to 13 million.” The end of 2009, the global number of new HSPA connections 9 million.

Warren pointed out that each new HSPA connection, does not necessarily mean an increase in wireless broadband new users because of mature markets in Europe and the United States, a user will often have several mobile phones. In the emerging markets, often several people sharing a cell phone or cell phone rental. Warren said: “Russia, for example, several people share a notebook computer is very widespread phenomenon.”