Telstra to provide additional wireless broadband capacity

After acquiring additional licences in the 2.1GHz band communications and broadband giant Telstra has stated that it can now use this to expand its wireless broadband capacity with more than fourteen hundred base stations.

Officials from Telstra, the Australian communications and broadband giant, have announced that the company has acquired additional licenses in the 2.1GHz band, and that this can now be used to further expand its wireless broadband services and capacity with an additional fourteen hundred base stations.

Customers of the Next G network from Telstra stand to benefit from this broadband expansion and improved capacity in regional and rural Australia. Both existing and future network sites are set to benefit from the wireless broadband expansion. Telstra Chief Operations Officer, Mr Michael Rocca, said: “Data carried on the Next G™ network is doubling every 12 months. Over half of the data traffic on the Next G™ network is driven by regional and remote users.”

Rocca added: “These new licences are fundamental to our ability to continue to meet our customers’ demand for ultra-fast, reliable wireless broadband. At Telstra we are continuing to upgrade the speeds we are offering customers on the Next G™ network, including our recent announcement that over 100 regional centres are covered by our dual channel technology, meaning that they can access typical download speeds of between 1.1Mbps – 20Mbps.”

He went on to state: “However, as the data traffic increases across the Next G™ network, at ever increasing speeds, we need to build capacity in the network to carry this traffic – and this additional spectrum will enable this to occur economically. Telstra forecasts that the wireless data traffic we are carrying today is a small proportion of the volumes we will be carrying in 2013.”

Source – Telstra