Australia to Become WiMax Testbed

Posted by Zonk on Thursday August 25, 2005 @04:21AM from the lots-of-space-to-wardrive dept.

shrewd writes "AU News site Whirlpool has news on a huge AUD $37 million investment by Intel in a WiMax project. From the article: 'Australia will become the world's testbed for WiMAX - Intel's wireless broadband technology - with the announcement that the chip giant will invest AUD $37million in the expansion of the Unwired network in Australia ... Unwired CEO David Spence said the investment will make WiMAX an absolutely mainstream technology. 'Unwired will be in the unique position of having access to the majority of the WiMAX-designated 3.5 GHz and 2.3 GHz licensed bands in Australia's major metropolitan areas,' Spence said.'"

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Truly American by drakethegreat · 2005-08-25 04:39 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I love it when a corporation from the US goes overseas and funds a project to help the technological infastructure of another nation. Australia could pay for it themselves but why not just have the Americans pay for it! Of course Intel when asked would tell people they are patriotic just like Comcast, Verizon, Rogers, etc. What a great country we live in.