EDITOR'S NOTE

Good afternoon,

Last week at Mobile World Congress, those vendors still strongly aligned with WiMAX were shuttled off to a breakfast briefing at a starkly dull hotel.

Most of the sober discussion was based around what niche areas WiMAX might compliment 4G technologies rather than compete with them. One remaining opportunity, it was said, was to roll-out WiMAX in those areas where cellular operators were too slow to invest in 4G technologies.

In Australia, Seven still does not seem to know what to do with the WiMAX spectrum it acquired with Unwired. And the waiting - as our lead story this afternoon illustrates - is getting costly.

-- Brett Winterford

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Brett Winterford | February 25, 2009

Media giant Seven says it still has faith in the potential of WiMAX, despite its Unwired business losing $50.2 million in the half-year to December 2009.

By Shaun Nichols | February 25, 2009

Apple has released the first beta versions of its Safari 4 web browser for Mac and Windows.

By Staff writers | February 25, 2009

Internode will deliver 100Mbps retail fibre-to-the-home services over the OptiComm network to around a dozen 'greenfield' suburbs nationwide.

By Staff Writers | February 25, 2009

Google has added its voice to the case against Microsoft as the European Commission probes antitrust charges related to the software giant's Internet Explorer browser.

By Staff writers | February 25, 2009

The regional Internet community is debating four separate proposals on how to redistribute IPv4 address space at the Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) 27 meeting in Manila this week.

By Ry Crozier | February 25, 2009

Open Text will enable users of eDOCS and its other enterprise content management systems to take advantage of Web 2.0.

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