The Australian Communications and Media Authority has confirmed that Telstra was the unknown bidder who bought the wireless spectrum belonging to Commander subsidiary Personal Broadband Australia, which shut down its iBurst network last month.
Telecommunications industry speculation is mounting that the wireless spectrum owned by Personal Broadband Australia/iBurst has been sold out of the wreckage of failed ICT services company Commander.
The iBurst wireless broadband network owned by failed Australian ICT products and services firm Commander would be shut down by 19 December, according to a failed bidder for the network.
Australian telco Clever Communications has made a bid to buy fellow wireless provider BigAir.
Australian wireless player Big Air has appointed Paul Tyler, the local head of network hardware specialist Nokia Siemens Networks, to be its non-executive chairman.
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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.
Australia's first pure wireless Internet service provider launched its commercial broadband Internet service in Sydney today, claiming full independence from Telstra-owned telephony infrastructure.
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