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World's First 21Mbps EHSPA/HSPA+ Data "Call"

Posted by kdawson on from the faster-than-a-bounding-kangaroo dept.

gadgetopia writes "Although data 'calls' on 21Mbps networks and equipment have been made in the labs and in demonstrations, Australia is the first place in the world where such a call has been made on a commercial, deployed 21Mbps eHSPA network, with a full commercial launch due early 2009."

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  1. Bring Lysol with me... by AmigaHeretic · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...for bathrooms everywhere I go. I mean 21Mbps? That's crazy! "More porn in more places."

    1. Re:Bring Lysol with me... by AmigaHeretic · · Score: 3, Funny

      What? I'm on my C64 with a 300bps modem downloading a 16 color porn GIF from a BBS at the same time as I posted that and I still beat you?

      Yeah, might be time to get the "new" iPhone. It's "3"g :-)



      /just kidding Apple fans don't punish me too bad!! :-)

    2. Re:Bring Lysol with me... by davester666 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      But it's in Australia... With the new netfilters the gov't is mandating, you won't be able to access porn. Hell, SlashDot will be filtered because it mentions porn.

      Next stop for the Aussie net patrol...cutting all links with the rest of the world. Once they find out this 'web filter thingie' doesn't prevent people from accessing 'bad' things, the only other solution will be to prevent them from accessing anything that cannot have the Aussie legal system applied to it.

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    3. Re:Bring Lysol with me... by BazilBBrush · · Score: 3, Informative

      Forget the porn filters, they are just another politicians wet dream...

      And forget the glitzy hey look at us and our new tech marketing.

      The real issue here is Tel$tra's obscene data pricing on their mobile networks - even on their fixed line ADSL.

      While the majority of ISPs in Oz shape you once you exceed your download cap, Tel$tra are still charging 15c / MB for excess on ADSL.

      You think that's bad. How about 15c / KB for excess on mobile data plans. There are plans that avoid that rate, but not the stock plans that they push. So they sell you the (not so cheap anyway) base plan with a measly download limit, and the next thing those who are not aware of what they are doing (most) get a huge bill. Then they switch you to the higher per month plan to avoid the excess, making out that they are good corporate citizens. Truth is they set it up that way to deliberately catch the ignorant.

      There are plenty of people here paying $130 / month for 3G mobile just to get a decent bandwidth / download connection coz they can't get ADSL. Telecoms / Internet pricing in this country sucks. All because of one dominant more or less monopoly Telco.

    4. Re:Bring Lysol with me... by TheRaven64 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      If he's connected his C64 to the Internet, he is almost certainly running Contiki on it. Contiki can multitask using protothreads (stackless coroutines) and can handle multiple concurrent TCP connections (where multiple on a C64 is around 8). The newer versions also support IPv6, although since the v6 stack needs 2.5KB of RAM and around 11KB of code memory, you'd probably want to run it from ROM or upgrade to a C128.

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    5. Re:Bring Lysol with me... by theaveng · · Score: 2, Interesting

      And here's an image of Contiki multitasking on a C=64 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Contiki-C64.png

      Amazing. I thought the old Commie was too slow and too small to run multiple programs at the same time.

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  2. Too bad about the filter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    21Mbps will become 21Kbps once the government is done with it

  3. Contents of the call by sphealey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > Although data 'calls' on 21Mbps networks and equipment have been made
    > in the labs and in demonstrations, Australia is the first place in the
    > world where such a call has been made

    Contents of the call:

    "Hello. [Censored by Australian Internet Censorship Agency] home and then [Censored by Australian Internet Censorship Agency] and he said [Censored by Australian Internet Censorship Agency]. Thanks"

    sPh

    1. Re:Contents of the call by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      [Censored by Australian Internet Censorship Agency]

      Australian Communications and Media Authority

  4. Re:All networks are fast... by Lachlan+Hunt · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not everything will be blocked. Only the really dangerous stuff like cartoon porn!

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  5. "Network", not "Call" by IorDMUX · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Perhaps the title could more accurately read "World's First 21Mbps EHSPA/HSPA+ Data "Network"", as 21 Mbps HSPA+ calls (which, though the summary downplays them, are really big breakthroughs) are "old news".

    Yeah, it's good to see this technology taking root out there, but don't forget about the engineers who made the tech happen in the first place! (In fact, given that Telestra's HSPA+ is not yet an active commercial network, I'm wondering what makes this trial so different from the dozens of "laboratory calls" made so far?)

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  6. Is it a breakthrough? by bogaboga · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I ask because I have heard of faster speeds than the 21Mbps somewhere in Japan or Korea. What is in this for me anyway? I am just an ordinary slashdotter.

    1. Re:Is it a breakthrough? by Bios_Hakr · · Score: 2, Informative

      Standard lines in Japan are 100mbps up/down with 24 people sharing a head-end switch. That switch has 100mbps going back to the ISP. The price is about $20 for the fiber-optic line lease and $50 for the ISP service.

      Typical rates are 20mbps down and 5mbps up. They are higher in the city, but I live out in the boondocks of Japan.

      If you want, you can pay $75 per month and they will move you to a head-end switch with 12 users and 1gbps link back to the ISP. Then, you are almost guaranteed the full 100mbps service.

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  7. Re:Single call on an unloaded network is meaningle by inzy · · Score: 4, Funny

    yeah, but the cable might reduce the mobility of your phone, not to mention the problems caused when you get on a train

  8. frickin' telstra by lucas+teh+geek · · Score: 5, Informative

    Telstra are renowned for rolling out awesome networks and coupling them with the worst plans known to man. tiny quotas, and huge excess charges. in this case excess is charged at $250 per gigabyte, which at that speed you can consume in just over 6 minutes.

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    1. Re:frickin' telstra by enoz · · Score: 5, Informative

      Before any mods mark this as a troll, let me point out that Tel$tra still charge $150/GB for excess downloads on their broadband plans.

  9. Re:All networks are fast... by ijakings · · Score: 5, Funny

    The australians have been angry ever since that Giant Boot joke, anything simpsons related is a testy subject with them.