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Telco reveals it is testing 4G services in Bronte, Randwick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The telco says it has been conducting the first round of ‘calls’ for testing data speeds and MMS services, over the past few months. <\/p>\n

“To run these tests, we’ve powered up Vodafone’s 4G technology in Alexandria, Bronte and Randwick with 10MHz bandwidth – we’ll be operating our 4G network in Sydney on 20MHz of bandwidth when we launch,” says Allen Didovich, vodafone 4G Program Manager, on a blog. <\/p>\n

Vodafone expects its LTE service to be up and running in the first half of this year, and says it will run on 20Mhz bandwidth, compared to a mix of 10Mhz\/15Mhz for Telstra and 15Mhz used by Optus. <\/p>\n

The fact Vodafone has more bandwidth on 1800 Mhz spectrum than its rivals could mean faster speeds, potentially. <\/p>\n

The telco’s 4G boss said the tests “for voice, mms and sms went off without a hitch.”<\/p>\n

At launch, in 4G areas with a category 3 device (like iPhone 5, Nokia Lumia 820) Vodafone are promising typical download speeds of 2Mbps-40Mbps. Vodafone expect category 4 devices to be available soon after. <\/p>\n

“For our speed tests, we used speedtest.net app, where we recorded super fast download test speeds ranging between 60Mbps to 67Mbps and upload test in the 25-30Mbps range,” says Didovich. <\/p>\n

On these speeds, a user could potentially download a 10-song album of music in 10 seconds – around 10-15 times quicker than on our 3G network. <\/p>\n

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But its early days, admits Didovich, as Voda trails behind rival Telstra who today announced a slew of new 4G technologies including LTE-Advanced, while Optus is also busy expanding its LTE services, in the race for the mobile user.<\/p>\n

Telstra has had its 4G LTE network in place for over 18 months. <\/p>\n

Vodafone, who will be hoping its 4G service will lure users back to the network, after 64,000 customers left its network during October- December 31 last. <\/p>\n

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