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Australia's First Commercial Fixed Wireless Network

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the is-this-really-the-first dept.

randomErr writes: " Australia.Internet.com reports here that 'Of the $130 million Unwired Australia raised from the likes of Credit Suisse First Boston, Bruckman Rosser Sherrill and The Invus Group, $110 million was spent on licensing space on the 3.4Ghz spectrum. Yesterday it launched its first trial of the technology at no cost to the people of Paddington, a cosmopolitan suburb in Sydney's inner east.'" Of course, wireless broadband with cast-off satellite dishes sounds more fun ...

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  1. first post??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    omfg...

  2. When the web was new by ObviousGuy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I remember those days when they were saying that the Internet was so important that they'd give away free computers to Internet subscribers.

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    1. Re:When the web was new by ObviousGuy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Those were the days my friend, those were the days.

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  3. frist post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Maybe?

  4. How about something important? by blackula · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Like the Red Wings winning The Cup.

    1. Re:How about something important? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I wouldn't call that very important. Neither is an Aussie network, for that matter. Or most things on Slashdot.

  5. Re:Biiiiotch by DJ+Uptime · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I've been reading /. with Konqueror for some time now, and never understood this particular device. Then I had the misfortune of hosing my kernel and being without my LInux box for a day. I had to use Win2k/IE for my /. fix.

    Now I see the unmistakeable beauty that is page widening.

  6. If this post gets modded up by Alec_Baldwin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm leaving the country.

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  8. Nice Work. Parent post nearly crashes IE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I suppose it's the way IE handles the music notes. Must be a bug, since Mozilla doesn't have this problem.