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Ok, so i guess people are pretty certain the 3G's will be coming out soonish.

What i wanna know is: will 3G iPhones work on telstras NextG network? I know it works a bit differently, but i'm not sure on the details and what does/doesn't matter. I'd love to use a different provider, but unfortunatly i need telstra for the coverage. :/

so what do we think? Smile

hams Wrote:

Ok, so i guess people are pretty certain the 3G's will be coming out soonish.

What i wanna know is: will 3G iPhones work on telstras NextG network? I know it works a bit differently, but i'm not sure on the details and what does/doesn't matter. I'd love to use a different provider, but unfortunatly i need telstra for the coverage. :/

so what do we think? Smile

Telstra's main point of difference is the frequency at which it operates.

The underlying data transfer protocol is HSDPA (a mobile TCP/IP if you like) AT&T are apparently installing 3G networks that will use HSUPA.

It's my understanding that HSUPA is faster than HSDPA so once again Telstra have blown it. However, the protocol can be changed by software. So they haven't blown it entirely. Either way, 3G is essential for Apple to sell anything in any quantity in Europe and Japan/China so if they too are HSDPA then we will have access also.

pmoes Wrote:

hams Wrote:

Ok, so i guess people are pretty certain the 3G's will be coming out soonish.

What i wanna know is: will 3G iPhones work on telstras NextG network? I know it works a bit differently, but i'm not sure on the details and what does/doesn't matter. I'd love to use a different provider, but unfortunatly i need telstra for the coverage. :/

so what do we think? Smile

Telstra's main point of difference is the frequency at which it operates.

The underlying data transfer protocol is HSDPA (a mobile TCP/IP if you like) AT&T are apparently installing 3G networks that will use HSUPA.

It's my understanding that HSUPA is faster than HSDPA so once again Telstra have blown it. However, the protocol can be changed by software. So they haven't blown it entirely. Either way, 3G is essential for Apple to sell anything in any quantity in Europe and Japan/China so if they too are HSDPA then we will have access also.

This is not quite true, when Telstra first turned on NextG it was HSDPA (High Speed Packet Downlink Access) then added the HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access) upgrade last year and now simply call it HSPA, the 'Uplink' upgrade only makes uploading faster and Telstra runs the worlds fastest downlink mobile broad band network (http://hspa.gsmworld.com/networks/defaul...p=1&s=hsdr) @ 14.4Mbps.

The big thing is the frequency AT&T (USA), Rodgers (Canada) and NextG (Aus) all run HSPA on the 850MHZ band (http://www.gsmworld.com/news/statistics/...lete.shtml) so thats a big point.

tallinex Wrote:

pmoes Wrote:

hams Wrote:

Ok, so i guess people are pretty certain the 3G's will be coming out soonish.

What i wanna know is: will 3G iPhones work on telstras NextG network? I know it works a bit differently, but i'm not sure on the details and what does/doesn't matter. I'd love to use a different provider, but unfortunatly i need telstra for the coverage. :/

so what do we think? Smile

Telstra's main point of difference is the frequency at which it operates.

The underlying data transfer protocol is HSDPA (a mobile TCP/IP if you like) AT&T are apparently installing 3G networks that will use HSUPA.

It's my understanding that HSUPA is faster than HSDPA so once again Telstra have blown it. However, the protocol can be changed by software. So they haven't blown it entirely. Either way, 3G is essential for Apple to sell anything in any quantity in Europe and Japan/China so if they too are HSDPA then we will have access also.

This is not quite true, when Telstra first turned on NextG it was HSDPA (High Speed Packet Downlink Access) then added the HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access) upgrade last year and now simply call it HSPA, the 'Uplink' upgrade only makes uploading faster and Telstra runs the worlds fastest downlink mobile broad band network (http://hspa.gsmworld.com/networks/defaul...p=1&s=hsdr) @ 14.4Mbps.

The big thing is the frequency AT&T (USA), Rodgers (Canada) and NextG (Aus) all run HSPA on the 850MHZ band (http://www.gsmworld.com/news/statistics/...lete.shtml) so thats a big point.

Thank you very much for the corrections!

I just hope the damn phone is released soon!

i hear that bro