With demand for wireless broadband at an all time high, 4G LTE is now spruiked as a provider of faster mobile Internet speeds over longer distances.

It is a successor of 3G networks, which in recent times, have been struggling to cope with the large volumes of data consumed by Australian mobile devices on a daily basis.

4G LTE networks have already been deployed in a number of countries abroad for some time and Telstra isn't the first telco to bring forth this type of high-speed network.

It is worth retracing Australia's 4G LTE journey to find out where it began and how local telcos have played into this story.

vividwireless got the 4G ball rolling in March 2010, when the ISP launched what it claimed to be Australia's first 4G wireless broadband network in Perth, Western Australia.