T-Mobile, the mobile unit of Deutsche Telekom, is launching High Speed Data Packet Access technology in its mobile communications network.

Few days ago, Deutsche Telekom has announced that Alcatel is the IP solution provider for T-Com and Nortel is the solution provider to expand T-mobile’s wireless core network.

Now, the company announce it will use Siemens’ equipments for T-Mobile network. T-Mobile will launch High Speed Data Packet Access technology in its mobile communications network. Starting with Germany and Austria, T-Mobile customers can now use their notebook or mobile phone to surf in the Internet at DSL speeds.

A software update for the base stations shifts the existing W-CDMA network into high gear. Initially, transfer rates of up to 1.8 megabits a second – rather than the previous 384 kilobits – are possible. “To provide our customers with the advantages of mobile broadband connections virtually anytime and anywhere, T-Mobile is systematically building out its existing network infrastructure. Our entire German W-CDMA network will be equipped with the data accelerator HSDPA by May. By the end of the year we will increase the transmission bandwidth to 3.6 megabits and then 7.2 megabits a second,� says Dr. Klaus-Jürgen Krath, head of RAN Engineering at T-Mobile International.