Telstra has just delivered the Federal Opposition a leg up with the release of a brand new Wireless modem than is capable of speeds up to 35Mbs. The modem which runs on the Telstra Next G Network delivers the world’s fastest national mobile broadband service, works in all capital cities and more than 100 regional centres.
Officially Telstra is claiming speeds up to 20Mps, in a demonstration conducted in Melbourne Telstra was able to achieve speeds of up to 28Mbps and up to 35Mbs during a press event in Sydney.
The new Ultimate USB is up to twice as fast as Telstra’s current fastest Next G modem.
Two thousand devices have launched today for Telstra business customers, before the widespread launch of the Ultimate later this year.
Right now wireless and fibre broadband is flavour of the day with politicans, as Labor slug it out with the Liberal Coalition who are proposing a $6.5 Billion dollar Wireless Network Vs Labors $45 Billion NBN fibre offering.
At a delayed press briefing in Sydney today Telstra executives refused to get drawn into the political debate of fibre Vs wireless. “Its business as normal at Telstra and that means getting on with launching fast wireless broadband” said Mike Wright of Telstra’s Network Products and Services Group.
The event which was originally scheduled for the week after the election was postponed until today.
“These new speeds mean that Australian’s can now access mobile broadband at speeds typically reserved for the office,” Telstra Business Group Managing Director, Deena Shiff said.
In area’s outside of the CBD and the 100 regional centres nominated by Telstra users of the Ultimate USB Modem will get typical download speeds of up to 8Mbps, which is still significantly faster than Telstra’s mobile broadband competitors.
“And like all Next G devices, the service always operates at 3G speeds and won’t drop back to 2G like our competitors’ mobile broadband services can do,” Ms Shiff said.
“The new Telstra Ultimate USB Modem provides customers with the speeds needed to handle large files, multitask and update cloud-hosted applications effortlessly on the go.”
The Telstra Ultimate USB Modem is the world’s first commercial modem to use a new generation of mobile broadband technology called dual channel HSPA+. The modem and enabling network technology was developed in collaboration with technology companies Ericsson, Qualcomm and Sierra Wireless.
Pricing and availability
The Telstra Ultimate USB can be purchased in conjunction with a range of mobile broadband plans including for $0 upfront with a $69 plan over 24 months (minimum total cost $1,656) or outright for $299. It is available from 25 August through Telstra Business and Telstra Enterprise & Government account managers.
