Telstra's billion dollar HSDPA network
Telstra has launched a $1 billion NEXT G mobile broadband network, offering high-speed wireless mobile and Internet access to 98 percent of Australians.
NEXT G, which boasts 12 channels of Foxtel television, sport and movie downloads, is more than 100 times bigger geographically and up to five times faster than any other 3GSM network in Australia.
Telstra said the launch will help it claim leadership in the third generation, or 3G market, by May next year.
"From today, almost every Australian is going to have access to nationwide, very high speed mobiles and Internet," Telstra group managing director consumer and small business David Moffatt said.
Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo said the world's geographically largest national 3GSM network delivered unequalled customer reach and speed across the country and was globally acknowledged as a superior spectrum for breadth and depth of coverage.
