On 26/05/14 22:17, Glen Turner wrote: > ... Telstra seem to be spending a large amount > of money ...
Telstra's WiFi network may not cost them much, if anything. Telstra will be selling their customers special WiFi equipped routers, for what seems, to me, to be a premium price ($200). The routers will not have any special hardware in them, just some extra firmware, to allow the bandwidth to be shared between the customer who has the unit in their home and others. So Telstra are getting their customers to pay the capital cost of providing WiFi to the neighbours. Sri Lanka Telecom have announced ‘carrier-grade’ public Wi-Fi hotspots: http://www.nation.lk/edition/biz-news/item/29513-slt-%E2%80%98carrier-grade%E2%80%99-public-wi-fi-hotspots-to-revolutionize-mobile-computing.html Hopefully this will be quicker than the WiFi I used in Sri Lanka, which was very sloooow. At one guest house the WiFi was not working and so the staff handed me the router, suggested I take it back to my room and see if I could get it to work. This was a small device with a USB dongle plugged in, to connect to a 3G network: http://blog.tomw.net.au/2013/05/telecommunications-for-traveling-in.html -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
