Telstra boosts broadband, mobile services in Victoria

Peter Dinham
Friday, 03 April 2009 08:12

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“Businesses will also see the benefits of an ADSL2+ connection as it means that the productivity of the business can be boosted. Operating in an online environment is crucial to many businesses across Victoria and these improvements will assist those businesses further.”

Wiltshire says the investment in the 131 Victorian exchanges is on top of the 1400 exchanges upgraded to ADSL2+ by Telstra across Australia in April last year, and in addition to the ADSL2+ upgrades, Next G users will notice further improvements in the Next G network with an additional 32 mobile towers to be installed across Victoria, ten specifically for regional areas, by the end of June this year.

Claiming that Telstra’s Next G network is the world’s largest and fastest national mobile broadband network, Wiltshire said the networked covered more than two million square kilometres across Australia, which was more than three times the coverage area of Telstra’s nearest 3G competitor.

“We are now able to improve some of that coverage experience with an additional 32 Next G mobile towers to be installed by the end of June 2009, and 14 of these will be operational as early as the end of April.”

Telstra says the additional mobile towers have been installed based on customer feedback to enhance the mobile coverage experience in Victorian areas such as Eaglehawk East, Nhill, Point Cook, Phillip Island, Mt Martha, and Mt Franklin and along the Hume Freeway south of Benalla.

“Already declared the world’s fastest national mobile broadband network by the Guinness World Records, Telstra’s Next G network is making the world of difference to nurses on the run, students taking virtual excursions and small businesses on the go across the country,” Mr Wiltshire said.

And, there’s more according to Wiltshire. He says Telstra’s progressively rolling out backhaul - the link between the terrestrial wireline and wireless network base stations - across regional Australia.

Wiltshire says “state of the art” Ethernet backhaul technology progressively deployed in the Telstra network will allow customers to take full advantage of the speeds eHSPA technology on the Next G network can bring.

 “The upgrades of the fixed line and wireless networks are further evidence that Telstra is committed to investing in Australia and is getting on with the job of providing better services to more people,” he said.