Mega Public WAN In Sydney

Chris Meder writes: "As posted on CFGN - The Nation , gibed by the recent unreasonable price hikes in Broadband connectivity in Australia, which come already after a strained relationship between Broadband users and the major telco/ISP Telstra BigPond Internet, a group of people in the largest Australian metropolitan city of Sydney have decided to form a city wide amateur wireless network. The team behind this clever idea have also put up a detailed graphical database of people interested and are still looking for more numbers to get this off the ground." This last part reminds me of the Global Access Wireless Database, as featured here. Update: 01/23 18:53 GMT by T : Reader Peter Mann wrote to point out that "there's a mailing list for a similar wireless project in Sydney at http://sydney.air.net.au."

Comments

This isn't the first

[yobbo]

Melbourne has had it's own wireless network running, as have other cities in australia. Visit air.net.au for an idea of other projects which have been going for much longer.

Re:who will be their provider?

[arsaspe]

Telstra isn't the only internet backbone provider in Australia... They are the largest, only because they are the dominant phone company.

There is also Optus, who provide excellent service and are slowly taking over Telstras business.
Ozemail/UUNet, sucky, overpriced, but still alive and kicking
Primus - Small, but I'm pretty sure they have there own link
There was also one.net, but it recently went broke