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According to Telstra Country Wide Group Managing Director, Geoff Booth, "Telstra built and switched on the Next G network in just ten months, providing voice and high speed wireless broadband services to 98 per cent of the population back in October 2006, and we hit 99 per cent population coverage earlier this year".
"Nearly two years later and the Optus' 3G coverage footprint is still miniscule in comparison," Booth said.
According to Telstra, it "covers 99 per cent of the population today, whilst Optus claims to cover 85 per cent today and hopes to cover 98 per cent in 2009".
Furthermore, Telstra says it covers more than two million square kilometres whilst saying that rival Optus covers a fraction of that today and hopes to reach half of the Next G network coverage at one million square kilometres in 2009, three years after the launch of the Next G network".
Telstra says it provides peak network downlink speeds of 14.4Mbps and will have 21 Mbps by end 2008. Optus on the other hand it says, peaks at 3.6Mbps.
