How long until 5G is everywhere in Australia?

As for the speeds you’ll get on Telstra 5G internet, the telco is citing an average download speed of 378Mbps during the busy 7pm-11pm evening hours, with a typical speed range of between 50Mbps to 600Mbps – up to six times faster than the NBN speeds available to many Australian households.

Our Telstra users saw the fastest 5G upload speeds Telstra is the outright winner of the 5G Upload Speed award with a score of 17 Mbps and a lead of 1.1 Mbps over second-placed Optus, which scored 15.8 Mbps. Vodafone is in third place with a score of 12.5 Mbps.

Recent Speedtest Intelligence data recorded in Denver pegged Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband download speeds at 988.37 Mbps , an 820.2% improvement over LTE.

And in Australia, based on over a million crowd-sourced speed tests from July to December 2021 our mobile network was found to be the fastest – with 78.3Mbps median download and 11.67Mbps median upload speeds .

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