[LINK] another external (or internal?) to affect NBN

[Jan Whitaker]

[I guess we can always say NBN was a disrupter in the market place to 
get the hidebound telcos moving.....]


Telstra to pour millions into national wifi network

David Ramli
Published: May 19, 2014 - 1:08PM

Telstra is set announce a plan to invest tens of millions of dollars 
in a national Wifi network on Tuesday in Sydney.

Fairfax Media understands the Wifi network will be rolled out across 
the country and be a public system that lets Telstra customers use 
broadband services in more locations. The announcement will be made 
in Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art on Tuesday afternoon.

WiFi networks are wireless connections that normally use fixed-line 
broadband to carry internet traffic to telephone exchanges. They are 
traditionally able to handle higher speeds and larger internet loads 
compared to mobile networks that use cell towers.

Telstra's WiFi network will most likely use the company's extensive 
network of infrastructure, which connects to almost every home and 
business in Australia.

Telecommunications companies across Asia have long offered WiFi 
hotspots in popular places like shopping centres and sporting venues 
to help boost broadband speeds and reduce the load on wireless tower networks.

Other Australian companies have attempted to use WiFi hotspots to 
give customers more internet services on the go with very low success rates.

iiNet launched a plan to do so in January but its chief executive 
David Buckingham said at the time it was more of a marketing service.

AAPT also announced plans when it was owned by Telecom New Zealand to 
provide WiFi services in a range of locations but the trial was never 
extended beyond Sydney's Bondi Beach area due to a lack of funding.

This story was found at: 
http://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/telstra-to-pour-millions-into-national-wifi-network-20140519-38jad.html 




Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
jwhit at janwhitaker.com

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how 
do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.
~Margaret Atwood, writer

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