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First connection
Australia established its first connection in Darwin from the University of California in Berkeley, California was connected via a UUCP dial-up. It was maintained by CSIRO. -
AARNet to ARPANet
The first permanent circuit connecting AARNet to ARPANet using TCP/IUP . It linked the University of Melbourne with the University of Hawaii via a 2400-bit/s satellite connection. Later upgraded to 56 kbit/s and then 256 kbit/s, at a time which the US end-point was moved to San Jose at a NASA facility. -
two commercial ISPs competing with each other
One of the ISP's was DIALix, providing services to Perth and the other was Pegasus Networks out of Byron Bay. -
increase commercial in ISP's
By June 1995 this number had increased to excess of 100, attributing some fifth of all AARNet traffic At this time, it was decided by the Vice Chancellors' Committee that Telstra would be better positioned to lead the commercial push of the Internet into Australia, so all commercial customers were sold. -
introduction of caple
In the late 1990s, Telstra and Optus rolled-out separate cable Internet services, focusing on the east coast. -
DSLAM
In September 2000 The first competition to Telstra's DSLAMs was provided by then Optus subsidiary XYZed, launching business-grade xDSL services from 50 exchanges. -
adsl
The first consumer ADSL services were made available via Telstra Bigpond, at speeds of 256/64 kbit/s 512/128 kbit/s, and 1500/256 kbit/s. Telstra chose to artificially limit all ADSL speeds to a maximum of 1500/256 kbit/s as ADSL required access to the telephone exchange and the copper line which only Telstra had. -
next G
Next G is a third generation UMTS mobile telecommunication network operated by Telstra in Australia on 850/2100 MHz. -
3g for phones
On April of 2003, Telstra, Optus, Vodafone, and Hutchison launched Australia's first 3rd generation (3G) mobile services. -
ADSL2+
In 2005, Telstra announced it would invest a $210 million in upgrading all of its ADSL exchanges to support ADSL2+ by mid-2006, though they did not say whether they would continue to restrict access speeds. -
4G
2013Telstra currently has 2500 4G towers active across Australia. In theory speeds up to 672 Mbit/s is possible. -
optic fiber NBN
The national broadband network aims to provide up to 1000 Mbit/s speeds and to connections to 93% of Australian households and businesses.
