Nortel Networks has put up a 'simple' upgrade to the EDGE standard, dubbed Evolved EDGE (that's not too many "e"s for Nortel, apparently), which should be available to operators next year.
Being a software upgrade (like HSPA is to UMTS), it is likely that areas that don't yet get HSPA coverage and are left (now) with EDGE or plain old 384 kbps 3G should benefit from these improvements in download rates. Which is always good for such places where population density is small, where presumably 3G HSPA (even as the standard evolves) will get very late.
Very good news. If only they would have discovered this a few years ago, UMTS would have been useless (and naturally since Evolved EDGE uses the same network bands as GSM, the need for a different frequency for UMTS would not have appeared either).
[Source: Symbian Freak]
(Evolved) EDGE reaches 1.2 Mbps next year
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