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[Howard Lowndes]

Interesting idea except:

No line of sight available
Carrier licence ??
Radio licence ??


Quoting Peter Higgs <phiggs@iprsystems.com>:

> An alternate solution that may work is expounded by Robert Cringely. 
> Who is  about 12km from town
> 
> "Reach Out and Touch Someone:
> How Bob and His Binoculars Found More Bandwidth and Learned to Stop 
> Worrying and Love the Bond
> 
> at http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010628.html
> 
> At 12:46 PM +1100 29/10/01, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> >I would venture to suggest that at 100km from Sydney you are unlikely
> to
> >be within 3.5km of an ADSL capable exchange.
> >
> >I agree your point about rural connectivity as I remarked in an
> earlier
> >post.  I am 15km outside Albury.  In Albury/Wodonga there are 4
> telephone
> >exchanges.  At this stage only 2 are ADSL capable, so what chance of
> >getting my exchange ADSL enabled before 2005?  Frankly none.
> >

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