Sprint Nextel Corporation is upgrading their smart phone called the Mogul to take advantage of a faster data network. The change will allow the Mogul to connect to the internet at greatly improved speeds, twice as fast for downloading and eight times as fast for uploading.
The new download speed should be in the range of 600-1400 kilobytes per second up from the current range of 400-700 kilobytes a second. The upload speed will be in the range of 300-500 kilobytes per second up from the current 50-70 kilobytes per second.
This has particular ramifications for mobile social networks such as Next2Friend that allow intensive uploading and downloading from mobile technology. The Mogul currently runs on Windows Mobile which Next2Friends is slated to be compatible with in the coming weeks. At that time users should be see greatly improved Live-Video-Streaming from their Mogul as well as much faster Snap-Ups to their profile.
Sprint’s has said that the majority of it’s broadband network, covering 234 million people, has been upgraded to allow the greater upload and download speeds.
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March 20th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
It’s great news, but can the Broadband network cope with these speeds?
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:14 am
It seems like that is the impetus behind this, to improve the network, so yes, the speeds should be much better than has been seen before.
March 31st, 2008 at 10:00 am
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