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Perth to get fastest wireless broadband in Australia

Set to be Australia's first 4G network using WiMax and LTE hardware

Perth is set to receive the fastest wireless broadband network in Australia by early 2010.

Unwired has been brought on to build and operate the nation’s first 4G network across the Western Australian capital, which will be sold to customers through a new Seven Network Limited subsidiary, VividWireless.

The Ryan Stokes-chaired company is spending $50 million to rollout the network and will be using China-based Huawei as its hardware provider. Former Telstra director of marketing, Martin Mercer, has been appointed as CEO.

The technology will be initially built using WiMax technology before being added to with Long Term Evolution (LTE) hardware, which is seen by many telcos to be the natural successor to 3G networks. According to a statement release by VividWireless, 4G wireless broadband customers will have access to average speeds of 4Mbps and peak speeds of 20Mbps.

The vendor claimed it will be the nation's only WiMax broadband network with 150 base stations being supplied.

“VividWireless has access to the largest allocation of 4G spectrum in metropolitan Australia,” Stokes said in the statement. “The wide application of services allows Seven Network Limited to further strengthen its digital platform connecting broadband users to the internet and burgeoning multi-media solutions.”

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1

John

Fri 04/09/2009 - 19:02

Perth wireless Broadband

Perth is a stretched out metropolitan area city.
How far North and how far South will you be going Kerry??!!
Will one of those base stations be put up in the Rockingham/Kwinana region? Lets have the nitty gritty details.

2

Anonymous

Mon 04/01/2010 - 15:32

perth wireless broadband

i bet we wont see any major improvements, australia is too far behind the rest of the world.

3

Sean

Mon 22/02/2010 - 21:43

witch service provider is going to do 4g and what frequency's will it work on and if it is telstra will it be 900 mhz and close down gsm on the 900 mhz keep gsm on 1.8 ghz and i hope they only use 900 mhz or 850 mhz not 2.1 ghz that was a big mistake for 3g umts

4

unknown

Sun 19/12/2010 - 02:28

australia promises lies wireless sucks it will always suck and cost too much so much for julias wired plan that got her half of her votes what a tard the only time we'll be seeing lag free games and download is 6 million years after the earth is blown up by an asteroid, kill yourselves now

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unknown

Sun 19/12/2010 - 02:36

don't listen to me I'm just pissed my peak is supposed to be 500kbs and it's more like 20_120kbs and off peak is supposed to be 65kbs and is more like 0bs(the b is for bites)-7kbs

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