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One company claims to have beaten the government's AU$1 billion WiMax network to the punch with the first commercial launch of a wireless broadband network based on the same technology.
The prototype of a short-range gigabit wireless chip, which promises more than 2Gbps throughput speeds and costs just AU$10, will be unveiled by the end of this year, according to researchers from National ICT Australia (NICTA).
Wireless carrier Unwired says it will start offering broadband services to Melbourne's central business district (CBD) and select inner-city suburbs from Wednesday.
Telstra has a "substantial" footprint of next-generation ADSL2+ technology in its telephone exchanges, but remains unwilling to offer the upgraded broadband service to customers, the telco said yesterday.
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Mobile broadband is taking a price dive this Christmas, with Vodafone and Optus trotting out low priced plans with high download quotas. But Telstra says its competitors' networks are too slow and offer limited coverage.
It may have had its share of teething pains, but medical clinic chain Medi 7 has used its VoIP and open source Asterisk PABX rollout to improve call routing and slash thousands of dollars in telecommunications costs.
The prototype of a short-range gigabit wireless chip, which promises more than 2Gbps throughput speeds and costs just AU$10, will be unveiled by the end of this year, according to researchers from National ICT Australia (NICTA).
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HP has partnered with Vodafone to embed HSDPA-compatible wireless broadband connectivity into its Compaq nc6400 notebooks.
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