<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div>They are rolling out a thousand hotspots as attachment to public phone booths. I have a couple in my immediate neighbourhood. If you are a Telstra customer you can use their public wifi.<div><br></div><div>Smart idea as it'll take a bunch of load off the mobile data network. Getting backhaul from the phone booth shouldn't be a problem for them :) The ones I've seen have been in popular restaurant strips etc so there should be a reasonable density of people to service.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div>...</div><div><br><div><br><div><div>On 17/02/2015, at 9:52 AM, Ross Annetts <<a href="mailto:ross.annetts@digitalpacific.com.au">ross.annetts@digitalpacific.com.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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That has already happened with LTE. Something you may be interested
in though is I did recently notice a wifi icon on a telstra public
telephone:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.telstra.com.au/broadband/wifi">https://www.telstra.com.au/broadband/wifi</a><br>
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So maybe they could start using them for voice at some point.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/02/2015 10:45 am, Alex Samad -
Yieldbroker wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:A3FB5D9FD28C50429DF7692DC31054E65533DB0A@DC1INTADCW8201.yieldbroker.com" type="cite"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I
guess the real driving question I was asking was not weather
4g/3g is better than wifi, but more does the voice network
disappear into a data network carrying voice. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">A</span></p>
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Ross Annetts</pre>
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