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Telstra's Great Leap Forward
By Richard Levick
April 27, 2010
Throughout 2010, American telecommunications companies have been touting next-generation mobile networks they say represent leaps and bounds forward in speed and reliability. Sprint's(S) new system, for example, which is being rolled out in selected markets, allows voice, video and data information to reach mobile phones and other digital devices at speeds peaking at 12 mbps (megabits per second), with average speeds of 3-6 mbps -- about 10 times faster than previous commercial networks in the United States.
Impressive as that sounds, consider that a year earlier (an eternity in technology time), Australia's Telstra launched a wireless Internet with peak speeds of up to 21 Mbps across a nation about the size of the U.S. lower 48. Each extra megabit makes it that much easier and faster to transmit video, text or even vital medical scans wherever they're needed. Telstra already has 42 Mbps peak speeds operating in the five largest cities, with more to come.
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