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Telstra To Roll Out 1000Mbps 4G (lifehacker.com.au)

Posted by yaelk on from the getting-faster dept.

An anonymous reader writes: After beginning support for LTE Category 9 last year on their 4Gx network (with its theoretical max download speed of 450Mbps), Telstra has now announced that they will upgrade their network to support LTE category 16. In theory, this means that if a customer has the correct equipment in the correct location, they will be able to have a maximum theoretical download speed of 1000Mbps, and a maximum theoretical upload speed of 150Mbps. Of course, it's unlikely that customers will be able to sustain these speeds, but Telstra lists on their website that 4GX devices currently have a typical download speed of 2 to 75Mbps on 4GX.

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  1. 8 seconds by slashping · · Score: 3, Funny

    At that speed, it would only take 8 seconds to consume my entire monthly 1GB data plan.

    1. Re:8 seconds by macklin01 · · Score: 3, Informative

      How does that actually happen with a smart phone? I mean it's not like you're going to download ISOs to your phone and ...

      Mobile hotspot.
      For when you don't want to pay the outrageous wifi charges at a hotel conference center, or Starbucks' connection is flaky, or Charter / Comcast / Timewarner crashes for the evening and you have work to do, or ... etc.

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  2. Re:1000 Mbps? by zlives · · Score: 2

    slightly less than 1Gbps

  3. Poor form by Smiddi · · Score: 2

    Meanwhile, Telstra landline (ADSL) speeds are often around 2Mbps and are charged at about $100/month for 500Gb (again at 2Mbps).

    1. Re: Poor form by kaiser423 · · Score: 2

      Other than the cost of billions of dollars of to amortize....

  4. Re:2 to 75 Mbps? by EEPROMS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The last time Telstra introduced a new service ie 4G they lowered the average monthly data cap for anyone using the service. So going by past marketing from Telstra the new services average monthly data cap will be about 500mb. I'm not kidding, Australia is the only country with monthly data caps on mobiles going down with each new service not up. Right now if you have a 4G data service you are getting monthly caps that were the norm on 3G in 2007.

  5. Re:2 to 75 Mbps? by EEPROMS · · Score: 2

    Yes but when the new service comes on line they will offer less data than before then slowly increase it to keep you sucked into their service. The Checkout in 2013 (Australian consumer show) highlighted this when they looked at the new 4G data plans when they first came out noting the data caps were lower than with 2007's 3G plans. I was in the USA recently and one of my associates had over 50Gb a month of data for the same price of a mid range 3Gb plan in Australia. Australian data plan caps are total rubbish and we are getting royally ripped off.

  6. Can't wait for the next "free data" day then... by throx · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So the other Sunday when they had "Free Data", customers managed to download around 2000TB of data over the mobile network. Cranking the speed up some more should enable an even more impressive effort in internet binge downloading!

    Refer: https://exchange.telstra.com.au/2016/02/15/big-day-of-free-data/

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  7. What G? by genka · · Score: 2

    So they do 4G at 1G. Will it be a total of 5G?