Optus has attained 50 megabits per second (Mbps) downlink plus 20Mbps uplink paces on its initial Sydney test of Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless broadband technology.

Immediate LTE tests execute more than 2.1 MHz spectrum in Sydney community of Gordon now averaged paces of 43Mbps downlink and 900Kbps uplink whereas 3G tests performed in parallel attain 1.3Mbps and 70Kbps correspondingly. Laboratory LTE tests attended 73Mbps downlink.

A second phase of Sydney tests will be carry out on 1800 MHz band in second half of this year. Optus director of creation collection planning, Henry Calvert, said they will improved “replicate an actual user experience” with additional base stations and customer devices.

“The second trial will start LTE and will decide performance issues, and enter objects to look for about the engineering of technology,” Calvert said. The tests were conducted among two base stations in Gordon, NSW, on a 10 MHz band section it bought previous this year.

Telstra’s previous tests established paces of 100Mbps in regional Central Victoria above 1800 MHz band, using a 100 MHz band segment. Telstra as well attain the similar pace over a record distance of 75km using a 20MHz portion of 2.6GHz spectrum.