Wireless broadband
Wireless broadband sounds like a pipedream but it's on trial in Sydney right now, according to a story today in
Wired News. The company launching it,
Personal Broadband Australia, (
www.pbba.com.au/), claim laptop and PDS users can roam up to 9 km from a base station and still achieve good connection speeds using their
iBurst service. They claim 1 Megabit per second download speeds. Other companies are also looking to bring such products to market. Wireless broadband won't come cheap, but if it works, it might be a godsend in the bush too. Read the full details at
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62684,00.html/wn_ascii.
Posted by belinda at March 19, 2004 03:51 PM