Asia Opens Up to WLAN

Posted by chrisd on Tuesday March 25, 2003 @01:08AM 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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Japan Japan by kahei · 2003-03-25 01:24 · Score: 3, Interesting

Conspicuous by their absense from this list, huh?

Ah well.

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Google for the Australians? by GQuon · 2003-03-25 01:47 · Score: 3, Interesting

My knee-jerk reaction to this was: OK, now Australians can't use Google anymore.
But of course, that only applies if they go to China.
And they can perhaps use a VPN connection to Australia to access all those blocked sites?

(Sort of an "ask Slashdot" question...)

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