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Asia Opens Up to WLAN

Posted by chrisd on from the cooperation-is-good dept.

enough2000 writes "As Unstrung reports: "Five of Asia's biggest carriers have given the public Wireless LAN market a hefty boost by announcing what they modestly claim is the world's first and largest wireless broadband alliance. Korea Telecom, China Netcom Corp. Ltd., Maxis (Malaysia), StarHub (Singapore), and Telstra Corp.(Australia) have agreed to open up their networks to allow wireless LAN users to roam from one country to another. Tests begin in July, although no specific launch date has been set." Full article is here."

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  1. the power of the internet by loveandpeace · · Score: 0, Funny

    to heck with the influence of capitalism; wait til the Chinese go wireless!

  2. Great, thats all we need by gowen · · Score: 2, Funny

    China, Korea and Telstra have new WiFi link! Now they can spam the rest of world without having to leave the comfort of their armchairs...

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  3. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    American scientists discovered a method of locating arbitrary countries on a map.

  4. Censored Internet - Everywhere! by GamezCore.com · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hooo Boy! Now they can surf the three ALLOWED pages wirelessly... from anywhere censored internet access is available!

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  5. First *and* largest? by ChicagoFan · · Score: 2, Funny
    by announcing what they modestly claim is the world's first and largest wireless broadband alliance

    If they don't know enough discrete math to realize that they are being redundant, can we really trust their technical background?

    ChicagoFan