HSDPA available from Mobilkom Austria

Believe it or not. The encumbent Austrian mobile phone operator Mobilkom has done it again. After being first in GPRS and UMTS now they are the first operator to offer HSDPA, which right now offers up to 1.8Mbps downstream and 384kbps uplink in their A1 network. Even Engadget wrote, that you have to move to Austria, if you want to enjoy HSDPA right now.

BTW: in case you are somewhere in Austria, e.g. skiing/snowboarding in the mountains, where there is no UMTS/HSDPA coverage, you can still enjoy EDGE throughput, but only in the A1 network, as all the other Austrian operators still are stuck with GPRS, when there is no UMTS coverage.

P.S.: the Mobilkom/Option card is PCcard/PCMCIA right now. An Expresscard for the upcoming MacBooks will be available June 2006 or later. I guess it won't take long until another version, that will support the US UMTS frequencies, is shipping, too.