Ericsson announced that it has signed an agreement with a leading Japanese operator, Softbank Mobile, to expand and upgrade its HSPA network in Japan to increase capacity and enable even faster mobile broadband.

Fredrik Alatalo, President, Ericsson Japan says: “We are extremely happy to expand our business with Softbank and to support them in providing high speed mobile broadband in the Japanese market.”

HSPA is the world’s most widely deployed mobile broadband technology and Ericsson will expand it on new and existing base stations in the high traffic areas of Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka.