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The Optus 4G TD-LTE Trial: Everything You Need To Know

Optus today officially began trials of its TD-LTE 4G service in Canberra, ahead of a public launch for the service on June 4. Here’s what’s happening and how it will potentially make 4G more reliable.

14 May 2013

Mobile

Virgin Has 4G Mobile Broadband Now

Everyone’s favourite MVNO, Virgin Mobile, has been hot on the heels of every 4G announcement Optus has made for the last few months. True to form, Virgin now has a 4G mobile broadband offering that seems to work out as better value than its larger rivals can offer.

Mobile

Report: Samsung Will Roll Out 5G By 2020, Promising 1Gbps Download

Korea’s Yonhap News Agency is reporting that Samsung is busy testing the future of mobile internet connections — and it’s set to be lightning fast.

13 May 2013

Mobile

Jenson Button Is Racing In A Datsun Because Vodafone

Vodafone is desperate to get into Australia’s telco good books. Seriously. It’s pushing a new network guarantee, it has spent billions on its network upgrades, and it has new ads saying why you should want to give it a big hug. Formula One champ Jenson Button is in this ad, and he’s driving a Datsun around a race track because Vodafone metaphors.

7 May 2013

Mobile

Telstra, Optus And TPG Buy Spectrum In Government Auctions [Updated]

The future of 4G in Australia took a big step forward this morning after the results of the government’s Digital Dividend were announced. Telstra, Optus and TPG Internet have collectively parted with almost $2 billion to secure spectrum in the 700MHz and 2.5GHz bands.

18 April 2013

Mobile

Vodafone’s 4G Network: Hands-On And Speed Tests

We’ve just spent the afternoon with Vodafone’s 4G network, going right into how fast it is at different network capacities of 10MHz of spectrum and 20MHz of spectrum on a couple of different devices. Here’s how fast Vodafone 4G is.

15 April 2013

Mobile

Here’s Vodafone’s Entire 4G Network Rollout Map Tool [Update]

Get in here. As in right now. Someone just leaked us a link to Vodafone’s public network mapping tool, complete with outages, network comparisons and most importantly, its entire 4G rollout footprint. Check it out before it’s gone.

8 April 2013

Mobile

Vodafone 4G Coming In June, Here’s Where You’ll Get It [Updated]

We know Vodafone is putting the finishing touches on the first phase of its 4G network, but details have today trickled out from the CEO about when you can get it and more importantly, where you can get it.

21 March 2013

Mobile

Quad-Core Galaxy S 4 Seems Likely For Australia

If you were hanging out for that sweet octa-core processor in some versions of the Samsung Galaxy S 4, you might be in for a little disappointment if Australia follows the UK’s lead.

20 March 2013

Online

Telstra’s 4G Works In The Ocean

The 4G battle lines are drawn. Optus hits fewer sites, but usually with a bigger splash of coverage, while Telstra has many more actual 4G sites. Including, as I discovered this morning, in the ocean just off Adelaide.

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