World’s fastest network kicking off Down Under
The world’s fastest mobile network is set to go live in Australia from next year, with the country’s incumbent operator Telstra promising speeds of 21Mbps next year and 42Mbps by 2009 from its Next G network.
The carrier says it already shares top spot in the speed stakes with Singapore’s Star Hub with a downlink of 14.4Mbps. Interestingly, it seems there might be a correlation between speed and data consumption - according to Telstra, its revenues from non-SMS data are now beating those from SMS.
The only downside of having a super-fast network is that the mobile phones aren’t keeping up in speed terms. Hopefully device will take it as their cue to get some rapid handsets on the market in time for Telstra’s new network - and hopefully with some new services too.
I saw the CEO on CNBC yesterday and thought he was talking out of his place-where-the-sun-don’t-shine …but now, not so much!
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Posted by Ant UK on February 12th, 2008 at 2:03 pm.That’s fine for the (wealthy majority) in the 3-4 urban centres but how about everyone else. I’d understood that Telstra were planning to switch off their CDMA network this year - it seems ironic that the heavily subsidised, essentially still-nationalised player, is neglecting the wider community to play the “top trump” fastest network card
Posted by Julian on February 13th, 2008 at 12:32 am.