Telstra starts trials of 14.4Mbps on Next G

Stuart Corner
Monday, 23 October 2006 18:15

Business IT - Networking

Just two weeks after launching its Next G network in record time, Telstra says it is starting trials of an upgrade that it hopes will boost the peak data rate to 14.4Mbps by early 2007.

The Next G core network will be upgraded with "the most advanced version" of Ericsson software which will enable the radio network to operate at 14.4 Mbps peak download speeds and will increase the peak upload speed from the current 384kbps to 1.8Mbps using High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA).

"Telstra and Ericsson are using Qualcomm’s latest chipsets to test various radio environments and high data speeds to verify throughput and reliability," Telstra said.