Technology evolves too quickly. While mobile phone operators are still trying to install UMTS in every city, a new system, much quicker, suddenly emerges: HSDPA (High Speed Downloading Packet Access). The first network to use this technology will be working in November in the Isle of Man, Great Britain.HSDPA allows quicker downloads without needing to change any infrastructure, which is what happened when GSM was substituted by 3G. The speed can be of 14 Mbps, instead of the usual 384Kbps of UMTS.The network in the Isle of Man will be run by Manx Telecom with Lucent technology. Among the services offered by HSDPA is worth mentioning the real-time video, which reproduces images with the quality of a DVD, or the music downloads. Other operators such as Vodafone and O2 (which has recently been bought by Telefónica) are planning to offer networks with this technology by next year. Francisco Román, managing director of the company in Spain, assured recently that HSDPA will reach Spain by the second half of 2006.

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