Huawei Technologies today announced that it achieved the fastest ever downlink speeds on HSPA+ commercial network as per the publicly available records. Huawei achieved the milestone for Singapore’s StarHub for which the commercial network was deployed in March 2009.

The speed achieved was 18.2 Mbps. Huawei said that its solution made use of the higher order modulation 64QAM scheme which boosts downlink speeds by 50 %.

Mr. Chan Kin Hung, Head of Products and Solutions at StarHub, said, “This latest demonstration marks another milestone in StarHub’s mission to provide every person, home and business in Singapore with world-class multimedia service and content, and reinforces our leadership in the commercial deployment of HSPA+ technology.  We are pleased to have partnered Huawei to achieve this success, and are confident that our cooperation will enable us to further enhance the mobile broadband experience for the consumer.”

Mr. He Gang, Vice President of Huawei’s Wireless Product Line, said, “We are honoured to have supported StarHub in the deployment of their HSPA+ commercial network, and in doing so, contributing to the provision of cutting-edge mobile broadband services to consumers. While the mobile broadband industry is constantly evolving, Huawei’s

promise to our customers remains unchanged. We are committed to driving industry development and delivering sustainable business success through our customer-centric innovation, and operators around the world have given us their vote of confidence by selecting us as their partner.”