Nortel has completed the industry's first successful demonstration of live HSDPA data card calls reaching a wireless transmission rate of 3.6Mbps - faster than the majority of current broadband connections.

The series of calls are the first data card calls to demonstrate downlink speed of 3.6 Mbps, at HSDPA category 6 using 16 QAM modulation. A laptop fitted with an Option 3.6 HSDPA data card based on QUALCOMM core MSM 6280 technology and commercial HSDPA network equipment from Nortel were used to achieve the download speeds.

�Nortel is committed to the thorough testing and demonstration of viable HSDPA end-user equipment with vendors such as Option to help provide a faster time to market of high speed broadband wireless services," said Jean-Luc Jezouin, vice-president, GSM/UMTS products, Nortel.

Nortel achieved the industry's first HSDPA mobile call in January 2005 and completed the first live test calls using a commercial handset solution for HSDPA in March 2005. Nortel also participated in a separate test in Japan that demonstrated simultaneous use of 3G, WiMax and Wi-Fi to support a number of different calls and applications at once.