Definitely choose Telstra
From The Australian - IT Section Feb 13th
TELSTRA and its network partner Ericsson have claimed a new record for mobile data coverage, saying a cell in Telstra's 850MHz Next G mobile network can now stretch to 200km.
Telstra said "extended range" Ericsson software had been installed in several mountain-top sites around Australia, saying the upgrade was the first time a range of 200km had been achieved in a commercial mobile network.
Typical range for a cell in the network was about 50km. Telstra said data rates of 2.3Mbps at 200km had been recorded during testing.
The new software would see peak upkink speeds of 1.9Mbps and downlink speeds of 14.4Mbps, Telstra said.
New laptop data cards capable of data rates of 7.2Mbps were scheduled to be released mid-year, Telstra said. "Since launching Next G with HSDPA, Telstra has doubled the volume of total data traffic carried on all of its wireless networks," Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo said in a statement.
Ericsson president Carl-Henric Svanberg made the announcement at the 3GSM mobile conference in Barcelona.