High Speed Packet Access

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High Speed Packet Access (HSPA)[1] is an amalgamation of two mobile protocols—High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA)—that extends and improves the performance of existing 3G mobile telecommunication networks using the WCDMA protocols. A further-improved 3GPP standard called Evolved High Speed Packet Access (also known as HSPA+) was released late in 2008, with subsequent worldwide adoption beginning in 2010. The newer standard allows bit rates to reach as high as 337 Mbit/s in the downlink and 34 Mbit/s in the uplink; however, these speeds are rarely achieved in practice.[2]

  1. ^ Nomor Research: White Paper "Technology of High Speed Packet Access" Archived January 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, nomor.de
  2. ^ "Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); UE Radio Access capabilities" (PDF). ETSI. January 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2014.