Telstra has also increased mobile network capacity throughout Flemington Racecourse, with upgrades providing 80% more capability in the past year. Mike Wright, Executive Director Telstra Networks and Access Technologies, said Telstra looked at new ways to add capacity to popular sporting events such as the Spring Racing Carnival to meet the use of smartphones and data heavy applications at these events. “The Telstra Next G mobile network has been designed to manage the normal day to day demands

MINNEAPOLIS, MN and Cambridge. UK – Feb. 21, 2012 – TE Connectivity (TE) and ip.access today announced that the two companies have teamed to create the world’s first all-digital integrated Distributed Antenna System (DAS) and small cell base station for WCDMA services. The solution uses ip.access' E16 picocell access point integrated with TE’s InterReach Spectrum or InterReach Fusion DAS products to provide a one-stop system for enterprises wishing to improve mobile service in their facilities.

Vodafone has connected its first customers to the National Broadband Network, in Armidale: a move that marks its first foray into fixed network offerings.

ip.access links the past, present and future of small cells with new ...iTWire (press release)Complying with 3GPP's Iuh and TR-069 small cell industry standards, nanoConverge is built using ip.access' award-winning Oyster3G technology that is at the heart of the world's largest femtocell roll-out – the AT&T 3G MicroCell in the USA, ...

Today Virgin Australia admitted it was evaluating delivery of inflight entertainment services via WiFi -However, the airline denied it was running a trial, of Internet access via WiFi, as has been reported. While Virgin Australia has started to ponder its options, rival airline Qantas last week confirmed it would launch in-flight Internet services for both domestic and international flights ...

Review: Optus femtocell, aka 3G Home ZoneiTWireOptus last month became the first mobile operator in Australia to offer femtocells as a full commercial product. Optus promoting them as solution for Optus mobile customers with poor coverage in their homes. The most significant thing ...and more »

Where has all the WiFi gone?iTWireA number of industry commentators claim that, notwithstanding the efficiency gains promised by LTE and beyond it by LTE advanced, such is the growing demand for wireless data that offload to WiFi and/or femtocells will be essential. ...and more »

OysterCatcher™ fine tunes deployed femtocellsiTWire (press release)OysterCatcher fine-tunes femtocell radio configurations, complementing the femtocell's ability to adapt automatically to its local radio environment and to minimise interference with the surrounding macro network. Developed by ip.access – the company ...

Fascinating post over at Technology Spectator, where commentator and telco consultant Andrew Harris discusses a new invention coming out of Alcatel-Lucent; an invention, he surmises, which would be a good fit for Telstra. blog We recommend that you click through and read the whole article. He writes: “Light Radio is a new product that Alcatel-Lucent claim will fundamentally shift how mobile ...

The nation's number two telco, Optus, today revealed it had selected Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) to be its sole packet core vendor, in a multi-million dollar contract that will allow it to face its growing bandwidth needs.

It’s coverage o’clock and all’s femtocwell, or at least soon should be for Australian consumers, as Optus is first to finally brings the femtocell to trial in Australia on parts of its mobile network after big femtocell deployments overseas on various telcos.

LTE should come from femtocells, Forum saysiTWireThe Femto Forum is pushing for femtocells - small cellular base-stations located in a user's home and backhauled over the user's fixed ...and more »

Femtocells: the next big thing in mobile communicationsiTWireIn a surprisingly short time femtocells have progressed from concept to commercial reality. They are now on the verge of bringing a whole ...

by Stuart Corner Australians may look enviously at the USA where AT&T has just announced plans to expand its FTTN/H network to 30 million homes and to offer femtocells along with a host of other upgrades, but, according to one expert a series of ...