Tag: Optus

December 27, 2022

Ericsson and Optus have created a unique RAN solution leveraging lightweight, new generation radios and basebands which reduce the consumption of energy. The radios and baseband used can achieve savings up to 25% depending on equipment being used following an […]

May 4, 2022

Nokia, Optus and Samsung Electronics Australia announced that they have achieved a data session using three-component-carrier (3CC) Carrier Aggregation (CA) technology over a 5G Standalone (SA) network in Australia. The European vendor said that once commercially deployed, the solution will […]

December 8, 2021

Australian operators Optus and Telstra have secured spectrum in the 850/900 MHz band, Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) said in a statement. ACMA said that all 16 lots available in the spectrum auction were allocated. The allocation raised a […]

May 27, 2021

Optus, in collaboration with Ericsson and OPPO, have doubled down on 5G advancements by successfully carrying out a voice call over a commercial 5G standalone network. Optus successfully demonstrated their first Evolved Packet System Fallback (EPS-FB) call which leads the […]

April 7, 2021

Finnish vendor Nokia and Australian operator Optus claimed a record aggregate site throughput after hitting download rates of 10Gbps using 800MHz of mmWave spectrum at a live 5G site in Brisbane. Nokia stated the demonstration employed its AirScale Radio equipment […]

December 29, 2020

Mobile operators in Australia have been accelerating 5G deployments in 2020 and are waiting for additional spectrum that local regulator ACMA plans to award next year to further expand 5G networks. The main cities across the country are already covered […]

December 23, 2020

Australian media and communications regulator ACMA announced that a total of 15 applicant companies have all been offered a license in the 26 GHz and 28 GHz bands. The watchdog said that the successful applicants are MarchNet, Dreamtilt, Field Solutions […]

July 14, 2020

Optus last week announced that it is offering its wholesale partners using the Optus mobile network, known as MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators), VoLTE (Voice over LTE) and WiFi calling across its 4G mobile network. Optus said that it is […]

December 4, 2019

Swedish vendor Ericsson and Azerbaijani communications service provider Azercell have signed a three-year 5G Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) spanning the joint deployment of 5G projects, trials, and use cases, the former said in a release. Ericsson and Azercell have already […]

November 12, 2018

Australian carrier Optus said it will launch its 5G fixed-wireless services in the cities of Canberra and Brisbane in January 2019, Australian press reported. The carrier, owned by Singapore´s Singtel, said that other major Australian cities will have 5G coverage […]

October 10, 2016

Optus has signed an MoU with Nokia to collaborate on a 5G trial using its 3500MHz spectrum, a globally harmonized band by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for mobile broadband usage. Optus and Nokia will undertake an early 5G prototype in Optus’s […]