AT&T: 80 percent of network now upgraded to HSPA+

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[/img]AT&T promised that it would be expanding its HSPA+ rollout
this year, and it's now finally touting some actual results. Speaking
at the Sencha Conference in San Francisco this week, AT&T CTO John
Donovan confirmed that the carrier has upgraded a full 80 percent of
its network to HSPA+, which promises to offer two and half times the
performance of regular HSPA. Donovan also talked a bit out mobile data
use in general, and revealed that data traffic growth has actually
slowed over the past few months from a rate of 50 times to 30 times
what it was three years ago. Donvon was quick to point out, however,
that "If you look in absolute numbers, it's still a tremendous growth
rate," and actually represents a three thousand percent uptick in data
traffic over the past three years.