Telstra is reportedly testing new mobile technology with download speeds more than four times faster than the former Labor Government’s national broadband network (NBN).
A Telstra strategy briefing obtained by The Australian Financial Review details plans to use a technology called “carrier aggregation” to deliver peak mobile download speeds of 450 megabits per second in certain conditions.
The AFR says this speed would allow a user to download a high-definition movie within two minutes.
Labor’s NBN offered residents 100 megabits per second using fibre to the premise, while the Coalition’s plan guaranteed speeds of 50Mbps by 2019.
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“Telstra made the presentation to global technology executives through the International Wireless Industry Consortium in a bid to win their support,” the AFR reported.
“The technology works by joining three separate radio frequencies together and is being tested by a large number of telecommunications companies around the world.
“Telstra would not state when it would be commercially available. Telstra spent $1.3 billion in May to buy some of the premium 700MHz spectrum made free by analogue TV’s planned switch-off.”
The trial backs up Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott’s view expresssed during the election campaign that the rise of mobile systems reduced the need to “dig up every street for the NBN”.
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