[LINK] Fwd: [do-au] Conf - Webcast Now - E-Governance Confer ence in Australia

[Chirgwin, Richard]

Gotcha!

RC 

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Muldoon
To: Saliya Wimalaratne
Cc: Link list
Sent: 15/04/04 17:41
Subject: Re: [LINK] Fwd: [do-au] Conf - Webcast Now - E-Governance
Conference in Australia

Saliya Wimalaratne wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Geoff Muldoon wrote:
> 
> 
>>Tom Worthington wrote:
>>
>>
>>>pps: The cafe here at Melbourne University has wireless access, but
you 
>>>need to get a University account to use it.
>>
>>... as the University probably does not hold a full telecommunications

>>carrier license and thus can provide ISP-type services under an 
>>exemption in the Telecommunications Act *only* to those in its "inner 
>>circle" (students, staff, adjuncts, etc.) as defined in the Act.
> 
> 
> But "wireless hotspots" have been specifically exempted by Ministerial
> Determination; so you don't need a carrier licence to run one of
> these now either (and I suspect that the cafe would qualify as a 
> hotspot). 

My bad.

I should have made myself clearer on "ISP-type services":
The restrictions on uni-based access applies for both wired and 
wireless, upstream from any wireless hub.  They normally can't offer 
Internet access to the general public, full stop.

Cheers,

GM


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