Windows Phone Thoughts: Telstra's Next G Up and Running

"Australia's fastest and largest mobile broadband network, Telstra's turbo-charged NEXT G is now live across Australia, built in a record ten months. Telstra Chief Executive Officer, Mr Sol Trujillo, and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ericsson, Mr Carl-Henric Svanberg, switched on the new NEXT G (3GSM 850 MHz) network today with video calls to locations across regional Australia, including Thursday Island - far north QLD, Southport - TAS, Cape Byron - NSW and Broome - WA. Mr Trujillo said Telstra shareholders' $1 billion investment in the world's geographically largest national 3GSM network delivers unequalled customer reach and speed across the country and is globally acknowledged as a superior spectrum for breadth and depth of coverage. NEXT G is more than 100 times bigger geographically than any other 3GSM network in Australia, delivering voice and broadband services to 98 per cent of the population... Turbo-charged with High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), NEXT G is up to 50 times faster than dial-up and up to five times faster than other 3GSM networks. Telstra customers will experience network download speeds averaging 550Kbps to 1.5Mbps, and peak network speeds of up to 3.6Mbps, increasing up to 14.4Mbps early next year."



Australia's major carrier, Telstra, has just launched the nationwide Next G 850MHz network, dwarfing existing 3G networks offered by competing carriers such as Optus, Vodafone, and 3, and even its own 2100MHz network operating in major cities. The i-mate JASJAM is the first Windows Mobile-based device to be supported by Telstra's Next G. With Optus and 3 planning to offer the Dopod 838 Pro within weeks, there will now be more ways than one to pick up a Hermes this Christmas. 8)