Austar has cooled its interest in a broadband rollout but hopes WiMax business models will evolve soon, according to the company's CEO.
Austar has stepped into the bush broadband minefield selecting Nortel as the preferred vendor for its proposed WiMax network.
Pay-TV and Internet service provider Austar will use telco Soul's rural Internet Protocol network as the backbone of its planned new rural wireless network.
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 United Communications has sharpened its focus on rural and regional markets, selling its metropolitan Internet business to unlisted public company Virtual Communities.
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.
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