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In a test of their new network architecture, Nokia Seimens Networks and mobilkom Austria today demonstrated the world's fastest data call on a mobile device using Nokia's Internet High Speed Packet Access (I-HSPA). The downlink speed reached a maximum of 10.1 Mbps during the trial.

I-HSPA is designed for heavy data transmission and multimedia usage. Because of a new flat architecture, I-HSPA is ready to offer consumers improved multimedia, full mobility of data services, and improved gaming and web browsing. Soon it will be capable of download speeds faster than 10.1 Mbps. The "flat architecture" is a new architecture of 3G networks based on Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) technology that allows the base station to be connected directly to the

As 2008 drew near and the ball was falling in Times Square millions of people on the east coast were sending their happy new year messages via text. In fact, so many texts were flying around that the networks were overloaded and, consequently, many messages arrived hours later or were dropped altogether. Basically the networks became like the turnpike at rush hour.

The same problem occurred on 9/11, during the 2003 blackout and during Katrina, and since those disasters the number of cell phone subscribers has nearly doubled from 128 million users in