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Sprint is releasing a software update for the HTC Mogul that will let the phone connect to a faster data network. The software upgrade, which will double the data connection and enhance upload speeds of the mobile phone, will be using the Evolution-Data Optimized Revision A (EV-DO Rev.A) network.

Sprint is currently only using the EV-DO Rev.A network only for laptop cards, while most of their mobile phones used the slower network EV-DO Rev.0 network. With the new faster data network, the Mogul phone will be able to download at a speed of 600 kbps to 1,400 kbps. This is way faster that the current speed of the EV-DO utilized by most Sprint mobile phones. For uploading files, the Mogul phone connected on the EV-DO Rev.A network can run as fast as 350 kbps to 500 kbps, a very big improvement from the current 50 kbps to 70 kbps.

This move will definitely improve the broadband connection of Sprints more than 234 million users, specifically those who are using the HTC Mogul. The Mogul runs on Windows Mobile software and can also be tethered to a laptop.

The Sprint EV-DO Rev.A network competes well with AT&T’s high speed downlink packet access (HDSPA) network technology. The HDSPA has a download speed which is almost the same as with that of the Sprint’s EV-DO Rev.A.

Read [Yahoo! News]