Poor reach and poor policy may turn out the least pressing issues for the government’s WiMax roll-out. The sword could well be triple-edged, if overseas developments are anything to go by, writes Katherine Wilson.
Wimax technology
IPA’s WiMax report is a double edged political sword
Labor is trying to make political capital out of an IPA paper that bags the Government’s plans for using WiMax technology for rural broadband. But they will be hoping said that no one reads the whole report, because there is plenty there to give Labor grief as well, writes Margaret Simons.
Cracking Coonan’s filter and other tech wrecks
For the second time in recent months, Communications Minister Helen Coonan has found herself in the awkward position of trying to defend the merits of specific technologies.
What Telstra isn’t telling you about WiMAX
Telstra continues to spread doubt about fixed wireless technologies to protect its own legacy copper network and its very expensive new 3G network, writes Peter Rossi, Chief Technology Officer of Clever Communications Australia.
