5G

The Optus Stadium in Perth plats host to AFL, Ruby sporting events and even music concerts. Capable of holding 60,000 people, those Optus customers in the crowd will now get a connectivity boost thanks to Nokia. Nokia announced today that it has launched 5G services with mobile operator, Optus at the Optus Stadium in Perth. This provides incredibly fast indoor and outdoor 5G coverage...

Yesterday the first parliamentary inquiry into 5G commenced. The inquiry saw 14 recommendations that focused on how to how to accelerate 5G rollout across Australia, rather than banning 5G (like some crazies would have them do). Having faster, more ubiquitous access to mobile data can only be a massive net positive for our country and it is great to see this framed as an...

Real world 5G testing around Albury Wodonga

Nokia may be back in the smartphone game, but it's their infrastructure game is strong. Today Nokia confirmed that is has successfully signed 42 commercial 5G deals with operators around the world. This impressive number places Nokia in the top position when it comes to the number of deals, supplying equipment to more businesses than any other vendor (of those announced). While some of the 42...

This week is the big coming out party for 5G, with the HTC Hub being the first 5G device, followed by the Samsung Galaxy S10+ as the first smartphone. Now we have the announcement from Lenovo and Qualcomm of the first PC with 5G capability. At it's Computex Press Conference, Lenovo announced 'Project Limitless' that is a collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Project Limitless...

We're all familiar with Speedtest.net, the service that allows you to test your internet speed from desktop and mobile. The site has just expanded to add a new 5G Map, showing the global state of 5G rollout. In Australia, we have 12 locations with some variety of 5G. This is made up of 1 in VIC, 4 in NSW, 3 in QLD, 1 in SA,...

Samsung and Telstra have announced a deal today that will see the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G be one of the first 5G smartphones on the Telstra network when its launched in Australia. The timing of this is a little weird, as the S10e, S10 and S10+ will all be released on March 8th, but the 5G capable version won't arrive for a few months....

The telco battle to be first to roll out 5G first has been won. Telstra has announced tonight that they have switched on their 5G network across all major cities in Australia.  While 5G will deliver stupid fast speeds to a ridiculous amount of devices, right now, you can't use it. The network and devices are kind of in a chicken and egg phase and...