Saturday, March 31, 2007
Other Telco’s working to install high speed mobile data solutions to combat the NextG product from Telstra.
Optus will be installing a High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) standard which Optus's rivals Telstra and Hutchison (which operates the "3" brand) have already adopted for their own networks. Vodafone, which shares Optus's network, is also on the same path.
The Telco says that the new HSDPA will cover 55 percent of the Australian population and plans to expand the reach to 96 percent over the next three years from June 2007.
This should allow customers of the telco to experience download speeds between 500Kbps to 1.5Mbps and a possible maximum of 3.6Mbps. Currently customers only receive speeds of up to 384Kbps.
# posted by Peter Saville - IT Consultant @ 1:49 AM 
