Telstra's Trial for 4G Mobile Broadband

Telstra's Trial for 4G Mobile Broadband. Telstra's partnership with Ericsson results finishing a trial of the enhanced High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technology. It is enhanced HSPA which Telstra says will achieve top network speeds of 21Mbps this year and 42Mbps next year on its Next G network.

On its network, Telstra has activated 3G direct tunnel technology that provides a capacity increase to the telco's mobile packet core network, which is due to more efficient data packet handling. The functionality comes from software enhancements, with no additional hardware required.

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