re: value just went up //Telstra will protest that the tech is untested etc etc etc but networks in Korea (Wi-Bro), Japan & Colombia to name a few are succesfully up & running.//
Don't think they'll be protesting so much now, too busy denying they stuffed up...lol
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20003063-29277,00.html
Bush high-speed broadband in doubt
August 03, 2006
A MAJOR technical flaw has put in doubt Telstra's plans to switch country users onto a third generation network for high speed wireless broadband internet by next year.
Company insiders have told The Australian Financial Review the trials by equipment supplier Ericsson of the $1.1 billion network have exposed the flaw.
They say that at present the telco could only offer "absolutely dreadful" broadband services to those a few kilometres from a base station.
Telstra is planning to use the 3G network to offer nationwide broadband services in order to cut spending on rural fixed line internet networks.
It wants to switch 1.3 million customers to the new network next year.
But if the flaws cannot be fixed, the newspaper reports, the telco will be forced to improve coverage by installing more base stations at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.
If it does not it is likely to come under strong criticism by rural groups and the Howard government, with the switch of network due to occur just before the 2007 federal election.
A spokesman for Telstra told the newspaper there were months to go before the network was complete and that customers would be happy with the final result.
UNW
unwired group limited
