One, the screen is brushed! Finally wait for you!
On May 22, while all were watching the Huawei incident, a piece of news quietly brushed the Australian media:
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Telstra, Australia`s largest telecommunications company, launched Australia`s first 5G mobile device!
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Finally! Telstra finally launched 5G hot devices and smartphones!
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Next week! Telstra starts offering 5G mobile phones and services!
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It is reported that the Telstra announced the blockbuster news, the Australian media described it as "a long wait," but it is a major event in the science and technology industry!
Because Telstra fulfilled its promise this year, allowing Australia to enter the 5G era by 2020!
This time, it has not only officially launched a super fast mobile device, that is, a mobile phone, but also launched a home broadband service!
In other words, you can enjoy the thrill of surfing the Internet, both outside and at home.
When it comes to this 5G family broadband, it is very good.
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It is reported that the HTC 5G Hub launched by Telstra is the world`s first 5G and 4GX mobile hotspots and intelligent hubs!
Look like this:
(looks very advanced)
Not only does it look full of technology, it is understood to support up to 20 Wi-Fi devices connected at the same time, ensuring that you can become the fastest Internet user in Australia.
Of course, it`s not enough to be cool at home. In addition to 5G mobile broadband, Telstra has confirmed that it will launch 5G phones next Tuesday, the same day as the 5G Hub above!
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5G network speed is really fascinating, but more friends are worried about: expensive!
But to everyone`s surprise: in order to promote its own 5G equipment and services in Australia, Telstra naturally has to pre-empt and seize the market, in order to achieve this goal, it unexpectedly released such a "big move"!
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As long as you have a 5G compatible device, Telstra will provide you with a free 5G connection service for at least one year!
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At the end of the free probationary period, if you want to continue using the 5G service, you will only have to pay an extra A $15 a month.
Of course, there is no free lunch, and if you want to enjoy free service, you have to buy their 5G device first.
Although Telstra`s 5G network has been turned on, it is still in its infancy.
So far, Telstra`s "expected coverage area" includes the following areas, covering almost the whole of Australia! It is planned to be put into use by 30 June this year:
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The following green is 4G coverage, purple is 5G coverage!
Melbourne (澳大利亚重要港市, 华侨称"新金山")
Brisbane [英格兰人姓氏] 绰号, 骨折残疾人或凶残的人, 来源于古法语, 含义是"折断"(to break)+古英语, 含义是"骨头"(bone)
[人名] Perse
Adelaide [女子名] 来源于日耳曼语, 含义是"高贵的+世系"(noble+kind) 昵称&L[Ada]
Hobart [男子名] [英格兰人姓氏] &L[Hubert]的变体
Gold Coast (非洲西部国家, 1957年3月独立后改名加纳)
[地名] [澳大利亚] Toowoomba
[地名] [澳大利亚] Launceston
Optus, its biggest competitor, is naturally in a hurry to see Telstra launch 5G services and devices so quickly.
At the first time Telstra announced the launch of the 5G, Optus also sent a message that they were ready for 70 5G sites, only 10 months before they were officially launched.
2, "dystocia" 5G was finally born!
Then again, why is the news that Telstra launched a 5G mobile device that makes Australian media so excited?
Of course, it is because: network speed, in Australia is really a hard injury!
According to statistics released by Cable.co.uk in 2018,
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Australia ranks 55th in the world with 7.7Mbps download speed.
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The speed of the Internet is not as fast as that of Kenya in Africa!
Take Telstra, Australia`s largest telecommunications provider, which received 11000 complaints of "slow Internet speed" in 2016 alone.
Therefore, for Australia`s major telecommunications suppliers, overcoming technical problems and improving Australian network speed is a arduous and great task.
As a result, the mission of building 5G emerges as the times require! But before Telstra announced the caution yesterday, the construction plan had actually been "difficult to give birth" for N years, losing patience to Australians who had expected it to be full.
In 2016, Telstra was already working on 5G, and claimed that the 5G network they had developed would reach the speed of 20GB/S!
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What is the concept of 20GB/S?
4G is 100 times faster than it is now!
If your Internet speed reaches this level, you can download 600 high-definition movies in 1 minute!
No matter how much you "surf" the Internet now, you don`t have to wait!
Two years ago, Telstra`s promise made countless young Australians boil!
However-this is the last two years of no news.
In fact, Australia could have entered the 5G era for a long time and enjoyed the general speed of the net, but this happened at that time:
Huawei is banned from participating in Australian 5G construction!
The ban comes after four Australian telecommunications suppliers, including Telstra,Optus,Vodafone and TPG, have chosen Huawei equipment as an essential part of their 5G construction.
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Australia`s government`s sudden Huawei ban left all four communications companies at a loss.
TPG first "scolded" government for this "unreasonable" ban:
"our company has been having any other remedies to replace Huawei`s 5G device, but we have now come to the conclusion that no. No matter how much money we invest in network construction, it doesn`t make any sense that we can`t upgrade the network to 5G. "
To put it simply: Australia 5G mobile network construction, without Huawei, we really can not do!
So, in February, TPG officially chose to give up:
TPG publicly announced that after breaking away from the help of Huawei, they were unable to develop 5G construction and chose to give up!
You know, in order to improve the speed of mobile networks in Australia, TPG alone has invested innumerable human and material resources in the 5G project:
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First spent A $1.26 billion on mobile spectrum, and then $100 million on infrastructure; Last month, in partnership with Vodafone, he spent A $263 million on 5G spectrum at the auction and promised to invest 30 million in 5G construction.
Therefore, we can imagine that after the sudden loss of Huawei, Telstra can launch 5G network and equipment on time, how difficult it is to pay the manpower and material resources behind it, which we can not imagine.
And these extra money, of course, was taken out of the pockets of Australian consumers. If Huawei had not been banned in Australia, perhaps the cost of developing 5G by these suppliers would have been greatly reduced and their efficiency would have been greatly improved. Consumers want to enjoy the cost of 5G network, of course, it has to be several times lower!
Finally, at the moment of Huawei`s "death", Telstra, who was an "ally" with it, suddenly announced such news. I wonder if it is also "challenging" Huawei.
In this war without gunpowder, does this message reveal Australia`s position?
But apart from all this, for everyone living in Australia, the advent of the 5G era may be a good thing to change the lives of Australians again.
