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Feb/Mar 2008
HSPA wireless chips as standard in Lenovo laptops
How will mobile users log on in future? As rival technologies such as 3G and WiMAX vie for their share of the market, laptop manufacturer Lenovo has given its backing to HSPA technology. Select models from Lenovo's ThinkPad notebooks (formerly the IBM range) will include Ericsson HSPA mobile broadband modules from this year. The companies say HSPA provides 'a DSL-like experience wirelessly', and point out that it is currently capable of peak download rates of up to 14.4 Mbps and peak upload rates of up to 2.0 Mbps. There are currently more than 160 commercially deployed HSPA networks around the world, they say, serving more than one billion subscribers. People 'are increasingly using mobile phones and notebooks to access the high-capacity services that they have typically experienced only through a wired or Wi-Fi connection,' says Kurt Jofs, executive vice president and head of business unit networks at Ericsson. 
The two companies seem highly confident that they are backing the right technology. Market projections indicate that in 2011, approximately 200 million notebooks will ship annually. Ericsson expects that half of them will feature a built-in HSPA mobile broadband module.
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