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Telecom New Zealand is already planning to upgrade its 3G XT network to 42Mbps during 2010. While the company only launched its 3G network earlier this year, Telecom NZ CEO Paul Reynolds said the XT network will be upgraded to 21Mbps speeds by the end of this year – with the speed to be doubled once again soon afterwards. “It [XT] will be 21Mbps nationwide by the end of the year,” Reynolds told CommsDay. “We’ll be one of the first national [21Mbps] networks. And of course we’re building fibre to all the cell sites.” Reynolds said the majority of TNZ’s mobile base stations would have fibre backhaul by the end of the 2009 financial year, with the remainder of the sites to follow later in 2010. “We haven’t got it to all the cell sites yet, but we’re progressively going to all of them so that it doesn’t congest the backhaul and we get a really great customer experience,” he said. The CEO added that the company had already been working with vendor partner Alcatel-Lucent on the next upgrade to 42Mbps. “We’ll be moving to 42Mbps next year. We’re already looking it and thinking about it, we’ll be bringing it into live deployment early next year... Once you get on the front foot you don’t stop, you just keep going.” Luke Coleman, Communications Day. |