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Telecommunications Telstra brings 21Mbps wireless broadband to life – in demo
Telecommunications Telstra brings 21Mbps wireless broadband to life – in demo | Telstra brings 21Mbps wireless broadband to life – in demo |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Friday, 07 November 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 "Apart from speeding up our already super-fast network, eHSPA gives us improved network efficiency to build capacity and maintain the quality of our service so we can continue to welcome customers to the Next G network," Mr Wright said.Featured Whitepaper
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"Peak network downlink speeds on the Next G network will have evolved from 3.6Mbps to 21Mbps in just over two years, providing extra speed, flexibility and productivity in the network footprint covering more than two million square kilometres and 99 per cent of the Australian populations." It will be very interesting to see what the average speed that 21Mbps devices deliver, and how soon even faster upload speeds will be delivered, with 5.7Mbps peak uplink speeds already having been promised to come from the current 1.9Mbps peak. Also awaited are estimated delivery dates of any mobile phone handsets capable of 21Mbps peak speeds, and whether or not services such as video calling will be able to bypass the 64kbps circuit switched video calls that are delivered today, instead delivering much higher video quality over IP direct to and from the handset. Clearly this can be done today over a notebook computer with a webcam, but given that mobile phones are handheld computers with two cameras built in, it will be nice to see higher quality video conferencing/calling as a standard feature built into the phone, rather than needing to use third party software or a separate computer. However now that faster network speeds are nearly here, the wireless infrastructure will be in place for Telstra and handset manufacturers to build on, so hopefully we’ll see better, more evolved handsets arrive sooner rather than later. As always, Telstra likes to advise users about expected speeds on its wireless network, saying that: “Speeds represented are peak network downlink speeds. Actual customer download speeds will be less and will vary due to network configuration, congestion, distance from the cell, local conditions, hardware, software and other factors.” |
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