Smartone-Vodafone announces 14.4Mbps HSDPA USB Stick

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Hong Kong-based Smartone-Vodafone is advertising its latest deployment upgrade to 14.4Mbit/s - the theoretical maximum throughput for High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA). High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) remains the same at 2Mbps.

This speed has been achieved with Vodafone’s USB Stick, a thumbdrive-sized WAN modem which is an upgrade to the pebble-like USB Modem in both performance and form factor.

As well as the new 14.4Mbps mode, the USB stick can fall back to 7.2Mbps, 3.6Mbps and 1.8Mbps.

The stick costs 1888 Hong Kong Dollars on the Flexi plan. There is a 200 Hong Kong Dollars discount for customers who sign up for a 488 Hong Kong Dollars plan on an 18-month contract, while the modem is free with a 30-month contract.