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May 23, 2008
In a recent interview with Australia’s ChannelNews, an unamed Telstra Executive made the following comments:
“We know what is coming, we have seen the new device and it will be available on our network as soon as it is launched in the USA, By christmas this phone will be capable of 42mbs which will make it faster than a lot of broadband offerings and the fastest iPhone on any network in the world.”
If true it would suggest that Apple is building a wireless broadband chip into the new iPhones that support an advanced High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) protocol known as Evolved HSPA.
However, this should be taken with a LARGE grain of salt, since the current speed cap is 7.2 Mbps, which is a hardware cap set by the chip used on the iPhone, and unless the folks at Apple have mass-produced a chip that doesn’t exist yet, it is doubtful that the iPhone will be able to handle these type of download speeds, even if the telecom company Telstra is offering it.
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