On 16th July, Singapore's StarHub unveiled a commercial HSPA+ service, the devices for which are being provided by Huawei.

StarHub's HSPA+ service, which has been dubbed as MaxMobile Elite, provides peak download speeds up to 21Mbps nationwide. It should be noted that the upgrade was finished in March and was provided to trial users.

Earlier, when Australian operator, Telstra had launched its HSPA+ upgrade, it had specified that customers could expect the average download speed to be around 8Mbps.

Mr Chan Kin Hung, StarHub's Head of Products and Solutions said: "Following the successful customer trial, StarHub is proud to be at the forefront of mobile broadband in Singapore and launch MaxMobile Elite - the fastest mobile broadband service powered by HSPA.

With MaxMobile Elite, we are pleased to offer consumers in Singapore an enhanced mobile online experience to meet people's ever increasing demand for high-speed and better quality access to the Internet on-the-go, enabling them to enjoy a whole host of information, communications, and entertainment services at their fingertips."

It has been specified by figures from the Mobile World analysts that the operator ended Q1 '09 with some 1.82 million customers, representing a market share of just over 24%.