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Mobile Internet Down Under
Anonymous Coward writes "A truck, a sat dish and a sunburnt country. When you absolutely positively need to connect to the Internet, why not carry your own broadband connection with you? One Aussie guy and his wife are doing just that -- packed up the lot and have gone on the road, so far roughly 3000km. He says 'Of course nothing is simple. The salespeople were convinced that I couldn't line up the dish -- it took me about an hour to figure out and now roughly takes about ten minutes each time I set up. They told me that the wireless gear wouldn't talk to the modem, they told me that my Debian workstation wouldn't be supported, they told me that the BOC wouldn't talk to me, they told me that I needed training, they told me that it wasn't done and it wouldn't work, they told me that I'd void my warranty, they told me so many stories..'"
Though slightly off-topic (could have ben better illustrated), it reminds me of a friend of mine who, in 1995, used to sell radio-based internet services to third world countries.
the most interesting aspect of his story is that he was not allowed to offer his genuinely original AND cheap solution in Europe because of bandwidth reservation and licensing...
Anyway he might have retired before the dotcomcrash.
Trolling using another account since 2005.
we've been doing this for a while. In fact Reliance Infocomm has even marketed it into products like mobile POS, mobile ATMs etc