Customers in Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Canberra, Darwin, and Hobart see 4G speeds increase as telcos take restacking into their own hands.
Telstra and TPG have announced that users in Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Canberra, Darwin, and Hobart should expect a 4G speed increase of around 10 to 20% thanks to a spectrum restack. The telcos said they defragmented the 1800MHz and 2100MHz bands following different spectrum allocations over the past decade. Telstra said it had pulled a pair of 10MHz allocations into a 20MHz block in six cities. « Larger spectrum blocks are more efficient and mean we can deliver faster mobile network speeds to our customers. Thanks to this project, we have seen average 4G speeds improve in every city where the restack was done by at least 10% and in Canberra and Darwin by 20%, » Telstra group executive of networks and IT Nikos Katinakis said.
