AU: This story has been picked up from the US from local news site Channel News. And while Jesus rips the argument apart for "Telstra's" claims, I'd like to say that I very much doubt that anybody in Telstra actually made those claims to start off with, considering they haven't even announced that they will be carrying the iPhone. In any case, don't expect the iPhone to support 42Mbps when it does launch down here.

A Telstra senior executive has apparently declared that "by Xmas (the iPhone) will be capable of 42Mbps, which will make it faster than a lot of broadband offerings and the fastest iPhone on any network in the world." While Telstra's network may reach that speed in 2009, his claim seems nothing but hot air and kangaroo dung, for a long list of reasons, starting with the iPhone's alleged baseband chip—the Infineon's S-GOLD3, which tops at 7.2Mbps.

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