Turkcell teams with Ericsson, Qualcomm for 3C-HSDPA trial
Turkcell, Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies have successfully initiated what has been described as the world’s first live three-carrier high-speed downlink packet access (3C-HSDPA) demonstration on a commercial network, according to Telegeography.com on July 10, 2014. The trial saw downlink speeds of 63Mbps and uplink speeds of 11.5Mbps. The test was conducted on a smartphone powered by a Qualcomm processor and an integrated Qualcomm modem. Ericsson supplied the core network and radio access network nodes, while Turkcell provided the 2100MHz spectrum.