Another fairly quiet, low key event today, is that Swedish company Ericsson has made a joint announcement with our local telecoms provider, Telstra which publicises the launch of their HSPA Evolution based wireless broadband service. This technology has a theoretical maximum speed of 21MBps!
Given the wide spread of our population on this huge island, a fast, effective broadband network is going to be one of the best things we could have to facilitate communication, education, and business here. I can’t wait for this new technology to be rolled out to the general public. From what I can gather, it runs on top of the existing NextG infrastructure, but will require new modems and adapters for your PC’s to be able to utilise the service.
Glad to see last week also that the government is rolling out high speed fibre optic internet connectivity to outlying regions of Australia, with residents of Nhulunbuy in Gove enjoying some of the fastest internet speeds in the country.
It looks like Australia has gone from being one of the laggards of the internet age, to a market leader…We certainly live in exciting times!
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