3 has slashed the cost of its mobile data packages in time for Christmas, which now puts the carrier in line with rivals Vodafone and Optus, both of which announced similar deals last week.
The nation's number two telco Optus has pledged to upgrade the data speed of its entire third-generation (3G) national mobile network by the end of May 2007.
Mobile carrier Vodafone today said on 20 October it would switch on an upgrade to its third-generation (3G) mobile phone network that would allow significantly higher data download speeds.
The nation's number two telco Optus wants to push its broadband services deeper into regional Australia and has asked the government for help under the Broadband Connect funding program.
Mobile carrier Hutchison wants to start providing data speeds of up to 3.6Mbps on the back of its third-generation (3G) mobile phone network from March or April next year.
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