5G data speeds loom sooner than expected

By Lucy Battersby
Updated September 12 2017 - 10:33am, first published 10:27am
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 16:  Culla Farmer Anthony Close who's family property Kurra-Wirra is where the 100th Mobile Base Station has been built. Funded under the Mobile Blackspot Program which is part of Telstra's regional mobile network, the new network will help farmers like Anthony with the work.  March 16, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Josh Robenstone/Fairfax Media)
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 16: Culla Farmer Anthony Close who's family property Kurra-Wirra is where the 100th Mobile Base Station has been built. Funded under the Mobile Blackspot Program which is part of Telstra's regional mobile network, the new network will help farmers like Anthony with the work. March 16, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Josh Robenstone/Fairfax Media)

Australia might be getting access to 5G data speeds sooner than expected with the communications regulator fast-tracking preparations to auction the necessary spectrum off to mobile network operators.

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