[MLB-WIRELESS] WiMAX to go Australia wide?

[Dean Collins]

Oh and btw lots of empty space in Sweden as well :)

http://www.voip-news.com/blog/20070618/telia-jumps-into-voip-market/

IP telephony, digital TV and broadband up to 2 Mbps
SEK 349/month    (About $A58)

The above package with up to 8 Mbps
SEK 369/month    (About $62)

The above package with up to 24 Mbps
SEK 419/month    (About $75)



 

Regards,

Dean Collins
Cognation Pty Ltd
dean at cognation.net
+1-212-203-4357 Ph
+61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).

 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Collins
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 June 2007 9:05 AM
> To: 'David Ashburner'; Melb Wireless
> Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] WiMAX to go Australia wide?
> 
> Yep and I love how this old chestnut is rolled out every time someone
wants to
> bitch about why broadband in Australia sucks..... oh the tyranny of
distance ....a
> wide brown land ....and all that crap.
> 
> Lets face it - they vast majority of people live in the suburbs in
Australia.
> 
> Yes there are people in the bush but 4k's from an exchange with
nothing but pair
> gain is hardly....middle of nowhere sorry you are stuck in the dark
ages.
> 
> I'm not expecting fiber to the tent when I'm camping in the middle of
nowhere.....I'm
> just expecting that Telstra deliver a public service OR should they
decide in the
> interest of shareholder value NOT to deliver a public service then get
the hell out of
> the way and open up to competition.
> 
> It's fine that Telstra went public - I think it's a good thing to
offer all those struggling
> financial advisors a way of making easy money...however when they went
public
> nothing in the listing said that they should continue to be the one
and only provider
> of telecommunications services.
> 
> Their attitudes to restricting access to copper and exchanges is
what's holding
> Australia back.
> 
> There are areas in NY that are less populated than where I live in
Sydney however
> I can sign up for 8mb cable with no issues at all.
> 
> Stick that in your data statistics argument.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dean Collins
> Cognation Pty Ltd
> dean at cognation.net
> +1-212-203-4357 Ph
> +1-917-207-3420 Mb
> +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: melbwireless-bounces at wireless.org.au [mailto:melbwireless-
> > bounces at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of David Ashburner
> > Sent: Tuesday, 19 June 2007 12:24 AM
> > To: Melb Wireless
> > Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] WiMAX to go Australia wide?
> >
> > >
> > > Take a look at countries like south korea and the massive amounts
they
> > > invested into broadband a few years back and how it is now paying
> > > dividends for their education, business and general way of life.
> > >
> >
> > I love these comparisons, Singapore is also a favorite one.
> >
> > South Korea
> > Area  99,000 Km2
> > Pop   49,000,000
> > GDP  1,200 Bn
> >
> > Australia
> > Area 7,700,000 Km2
> > Pop   20,800,000
> > GDP  675 Bn
> >
> > What the heck, let's do Singapore now while were at it
> >
> > Singapore
> > Area  704 Km2
> > Pop    4,100,000
> > GDP  145 Bn
> >
> > South Korea a really big city that is also a country
> > Australia        a really big country that has a handful of cities
> > housing a majority of the population.
> > Singapore     a city that happens to be a country
> >
> >
> >
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