As confirmed by the company, Telstra has managed to become the first ever telecommunications services operator in the world to test out the HSPA+ dual carrier mobile broadband technology, which boasts a speed of 42Mbps, outside of the vendor labs.

According to the telecom company, it has managed to stage a successful demonstration of the services in Ericsson's offices in Sweden; in addition, the firm claims that it has also been testing the service on its own test network in Parramatta.

"It is our intention to be the first with a commercial service. We are certainly the first to test it outside vendor labs in our own environment", said Mike Wright, Telstra's Director of Wireless.

In February this year, Telstra also became the first network to work with the 21Mbps HSPA+ network.

Although no confirmations have been offered by the company on the date of the commercial launch, Mr. Wright shared, "We will make announcements in the new year about commercial device availability. We are now at the point where the software upgrade is coming to completion and that enables us to test the new [42Mbps] devices early next year".