Vodafone has extended Spanish trials of its evolutionary 3G HSPA+ Mobile Broadband technology, which topped 16Mbps downstream last month (original news), to reach speeds of over 20Mbps in its test environment (upload performance is not stated):


The successful trial means that Vodafone has reached its original HPSA+ goal of hitting roughly 21Mbps, though HSPA+ has the potential to one day offer download speeds of up to 42Mbps and uploads of 22Mbps.

Naturally ordinary consumers are unlikely to ever see that kind of performance because Mobile Broadband technologies are considerably more unstable (speed wise) than their land-line counterparts.