[MLB-WIRELESS] Australian telcos play waiting game with WLANs

[Barry Park]

Australian telcos play waiting game with WLANs
By Kelly Mills

1 July, 2002 13:29 sydney, Australia

Unlike overseas counterparts, Australian telecommunication operators are
taking a wait and see approach to public access wireless LAN (WLAN)
networks.

However, Mario Davoli, technology strategist for Ericsson Australia,
believes there will be an increase in public WLAN hot spots within the next
12 months and operators will move towards offering the service within this
time period.

IDC forecast deployment in visitor-based networks such as airports and
hotels – hot spot deployment of WLANs – will be one of the main factors to
drive WLAN adoption.

However, both Telstra and Optus told Computerworld they have no plans in
place to offer public access wireless LAN (WLAN) networks.

A spokesperson for Optus said the telco was looking at WLANs from a
technology and business case point of view, but had no "plans at the moment"
to enter this market.
More at
http://www.computerworld.com.au/IDG2.NSF/a/00072022?OpenDocument&n=e&c=CP





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