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15 May 2013
- Executive Director – Networks & Access Technologies
- Mike Wright is Executive Director of Networks & Access Technologies in Telstra Operations.
Mike has over 30 years experience in telecommunications commencing his career designing and building telecommunications networks including early work on digital switching, paging, optical fibre and transmission networks. Since then he has made significant contributions to the establishment and evolution of Telstra’s mobile networks through Analogue, GSM, CDMA, WCDMA to the completion of Telstra’s world class, nationwide LTE & DC-HSPA-capable Next G® mobile network.
Mike has been highly engaged in the wireless technology evolution including a series of world leading developments such as the 200Km cell range, HSPA+, DC HSPA+ and the world’s largest HD Voice footprint. Mike has extensive international experience in developing wireless ecosystems including the establishment and promotion of user/focus groups to grow the 850 MHz HSPA and 1800 MHz LTE ecosystems.
Mike currently leads the engineering for Telstra’s fixed access, transport and routing networks and has been instrumental in a wide range of innovations including low cost ADSL expansion, DOCSIS 3 upgrades, world first implementation of Application Aware Networking and evolution to new BNG architectures.
Mike is regular presenter and influencer at international forums including Mobile World Congress, Broadband World Forum, 4G World, GSM Latin America and LTE Asia.
15 May 2013
Author: Mike Wright. I posted last week that Telstra had been successful in winning the amount of spectrum we wanted in the recent Government mobile spectrum auction and that this additional bandwidth will help us provide the next generation of services for our customers across Australia, now and into the future.
Continue Reading07 May 2013
Author: Mike Wright. The result of the Government’s mobile spectrum auction was released today and Telstra was successful in winning the amount of spectrum we wanted. We see this as a great outcome on a number of fronts including for our customers, so I wanted to give you an understanding of what it means and why it’s so important.
Continue Reading13 Feb 2013
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This week we announced that Telstra continues to keep on top of the wireless technology curve and will launch two ‘Category 4’, or CAT4 devices, for use on our 4G network s later this year – a wi-fi dongle and a handset. What does this mean? Well, that’s a question that needs to be answered on two levels. Firstly, the tech explanation; secondly what this means practically for customers and for Telstra.
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