16 companies have joined in the project Mobile Broadband

GSMA Association announced that 16 major IT companies and mobile phone industries have joined together to work on a new project Mobile Broadband. Under this initiative will develop a new category of mobile devices to always keep in touch in mobile broadband networks (basically, is meant standard HSPA). According to participants, Mobile Broadband solutions will be able to create a decent competition Wi-Fi. By the project joined the company 3 Group, Asus, Dell, ECS, Ericsson, Gemalto, Lenovo, Microsoft, Orange, Qualcomm, Telefonica Europe, Telecom Italia, TeliaSonera, T-Mobile, Toshiba and Vodafone.

According to participants Mobile Broadband, the first step initiative was the introduction of adapters HSPA in notebooks, such devices are already beginning to appear on the market. Then, according to the companies need to strive for widespread wireless broadband. Support for standard HSPA may appear from anywhere, from cameras and Media, to refrigerators and cars. This is what will be the aim of the project Mobile Broadband. According to Wireless Intelligence, is now the world has 55 million users of mobile broadband services in 91 countries.