Du given green light to market HSPA+ service as 4G

The UAE’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has lifted a restriction on the country’s second national telecoms operator Du from marketing its HSPA+ mobile services as ‘4G’, The National reports. Last month incumbent telecoms operator Etisalat allegedly filed a complaint with the regulator following a statement from Du which claimed that it was the first operator in the UAE to offer ‘4G’ mobile services, after commercially launching its DC-HSPA+ network, which offers download speeds of up to 42Mbps, in March 2011. Etisalat however claimed that according to standards set by the TRA, Du’s HSPA+ network should be classed a 3.75G, rather than ‘4G’, and said that its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, introduced last month offering peak speeds of 100Mbps, should be classed as the UAE’s first 4G network.

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