How fast is 5G right now?

In November 2019, they began offering both a mobile 5G solution and fixed wireless access (FWA) 5G. From the launch date, there were over 290 5G sites in Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, NSW, Victoria, and Queensland. Optus turned on their Standalone 5G network for limited trial in late 2021 .

5G offers faster max speeds, but with compromise Theoretically, 5G speeds could get up to around a massive 20GBps, 20 times the maximum speed of an NBN personal plan .

5G speed in Australia Currently, you can expect 5G speeds between 100Mbps and 1Gbps in Australia. In our testing around Sydney, we got average speeds of 500Mbps on Telstra and Optus, and 250Mbps on Vodafone.12 Eki 2021

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