Austar will target communities like Broken Hill, which are generally underserviced by ADSL providers, during its regional rollout of wireless broadband, the company said today.
Austar has cooled its interest in a broadband rollout but hopes WiMax business models will evolve soon, according to the company's CEO.
The government has denied that Australia's bush broadband network will be put at risk of interference from common households gadgets -- such as microwave ovens.
Austar has appointed network construction specialist TCI to plan and build its regional wireless network infrastructure.
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WiMax could be the standard that drives the next phase of mobile broadband, it provides an opportunity for players wanting to establish a pure IP network to carry voice and data effectively but is this what operators want?
Hopefully, you've been spending your end-of-year break better than the executives at Optus, who seem to have taken advantage of the annual industry-wide lull to get onetime WiMax aspirant Austar United Telecommunications to the negotiating table.
Wireless broadband users in Australia could enjoy maximum surfing speeds of 75 megabits per second by mid-2006, analysts say.
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.
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