It’s not just nbn, the company, celebrating just how good it thinks its fixed wireless service is, as reported by iTWire, but naturally, Ericsson too.

Ericsson touts LTE optimised for fixed wireless as a ‘proven technology for delivery of broadband directly to homes and businesses’ as part of the MTM multi-technology mix, and as a way to affordably deliver super fast broadband to rural and regional Australia.

The company also promises to continue advancing ‘the fixed wireless service to deliver performance benefits, keeping pace with increasing user demands.’

As reported in the nbn’s version of the media release, this was discussed in the report, prepared by Ovum and commissioned by Ericsson, entitled ‘Fixed Wireless Broadband: A Global Comparison’. 
 
The report says it shows that Ericsson and nbn are delivering a world leading fixed wireless service, with ‘better speeds, higher data allowances and better value’ than many users of other fixed wireless services across the world.

Bill Morrow, nbn CEO, has statements similar to those from the nbn media release, but adds a little more, stating: “These research findings are already reflected in the very high customer satisfaction displayed by our fixed-wireless end-users who tell us they are receiving a consistently reliable performance from our network.

“nbn’s fixed-wireless end-users in regional Australia are receiving download speeds and data allowances that are opening up new opportunities in business, education and entertainment.

“The report also shows how useful LTE is in providing high quality broadband in areas where fixed line deployment is impractical – with Ericsson’s technology and network design helping us to achieve very strong network performance,” Morrow added.

The Head of Ericsson A/NZ/Fiji is Håkan Eriksson, who said: “Ericsson and nbn continue to increase capabilities of the fixed wireless network as demand grows.

“In just three years we have delivered 12Mbps downlink /1Mbps uplink speeds, increased to 25 Mbps/5Mbps and we are now trialling 25-50Mbps /5-20Mbps. In March we trialled radio technology on 3.5GHz, which will allow nbn to fully utilise spectrum holdings and address traffic growth.”

“With the 50Mbps downlink / 20Mbps uplink speed tier soon to be commercially available and end users consuming nearly 70GB per month, the nbn Fixed Wireless service is a clear fixed broadband service option for Australians,” Eriksson added. Let us hope, with all these trails and tribulations, that more Australians will be the beneficiaries of ever faster fixed wireless, sooner.

Ovum’s report says that when it comes to ‘the data allowance, download and upload speeds and price per gigabyte for 21 fixed wireless networks across the globe, including US, Germany and Japan’, Australia’s nbn service ‘outperforms other comparable services in data allowance, upload speeds and price and only one operator matched nbn’s forthcoming 50Mbps downlink speed.’

This is astoundingly fantastic if you’re in a position to access the nbn fixed wireless service. It’s a bit less exciting if you’re not in a fixed wireless area and still don’t have FttP or FttN or FttH or FttAnything as yet.

It is, however, a sign of progress and a sign that, if you don’t have it yet, one day the nbn should come to you, too.

In any case it’s all supposed to mean that ‘multiple applications can be used with high performance’ and the nbn’s supposed affordability.

Well, I’ve read complaints even from those on an nbn service that the Netflix peak-time viewing factor slows even nbn connections, so we simply hope that nbn, the company, and its ISP partners, can deliver on their promises.

Ericsson says its fixed wireless LTE network technology is optimised ‘to provide a fixed high speed broadband service directly to homes and businesses in the less densely populated areas of rural and regional Australia,’ covering ‘270,000 homes and 47,000 premises have activated the service.’

The nbn. You’ll get it evenbntually, it is slowly ‘coming soonbn’, I just hope we eventually end up with something closer to the Nerd’s Broadband Nirvana rather than just the Not Bad Network!