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European ministers have warned that the costs of building third-generation mobile networks to support broadband speeds could threaten the economic growth of the EU.
The federal communications minister has reassured rural Australia her department plans to work with Telstra and the communications regulator to ensure the bush won't be disadvantaged as the telco dumps its existing CDMA network in favour of a new national 3G mobile offering.
Things are looking up for the UK's mobile operators - they could be about to get £3.35bn back from the taxman if they're found to have paid too much for their 3G licences.
The federal government welcomed Telstra's plans to build a new IP network and roll out third-generation (3G) mobile phone services nationwide but discredited claims it was responsible for any job losses.
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WiMax, the controversial long range wireless broadband technology, is set to spread across rural Australia from next year -- but despite the outgoing Howard government's ambitious project, both fixed and mobile variants of the technology are already being deployed around the world.
From Wi-Fi to semiconductors, Western firms see opportunity and hurdles in the Chinese market.
Broadband and biometrics help NEC reinvent the workaday world. The average length of meetings has dropped 20 percent and conference room time is down 70 percent.
Now that wireless is becoming technologically and financially competitive with its wired equivalents, the strongest argument of all to cut the cable is convenience. New standards in speed make wireless networking a valid choice.
The perceived viability of 3G networks has taken another blow with UK mobile company mmO2 announcing it had made a pre-tax loss of £10.2bn, and admitting that it paid well over the odds for its third-generation licences.
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