<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4513"><span>It's the outback, you don't need to worry about silly things like "licenses". Pffftttt.</span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4512"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4346" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4345"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4344"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4380"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4381"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4516"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Narelle <narellec@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "ausnog@ausnog.net" <ausnog@lists.ausnog.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 23 January 2017, 14:38<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [AusNOG] Anyone know about this? High speed internet for Queensland's Richmond graziers<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4343"><br><div id="yiv2177832803"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4342"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4341">[Just wondering who it was got the carrier license - N]</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4458"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4459"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4461"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4460">High speed internet for Queensland's Richmond graziers</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4462">ABC Rural By Eric Barker</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4463"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4464">Posted Wed 21 Dec 2016, 9:40am</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4465">PHOTO: William Harrington from Harrington Systems Electronics and Olga Downs station, north of Richmond. (ABC Rural: Eric Barler)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4466"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4510">A new highspeed internet service will be switched on this week for some graziers and the local council in the Richmond area of north Queensland.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4467"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4468">The service was setup by the Harrington family, who live at Olga Downs station about 50 kilometres north of town.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4469"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4470">William Harrington from Olga Downs said building a new internet service was a necessity for running his electronics company on the station.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4471"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4472">"We said we've got to do something about this and we decided to build a wireless link 46 kilometres long from Richmond to the station, just to be able to run our business," Mr Harrington said.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4473"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4474">He said although computing equipment was becoming less expensive the project would not be possible without a client as big as the Richmond Shire Council.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4475"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4476">"We've hooked into a fibre optic cable running from Townsville to Mount Isa and it's extremely expensive," he said.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4477"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4502">"It was cost prohibitive for us to do that by ourselves in a small town.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4501">"So we've partnered with the local council to be able to do that and it's a winwin for both of us."</div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4500"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4499"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4517">etc from:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4519"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-21/high-speed-internet-for-richmond-graziers/8134462" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4518">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-21/high-speed-internet-for-richmond-graziers/8134462</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4520"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485152440846_4561"><br></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="yiv2177832803gmail_signature"><br><br>Narelle<br><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:narellec@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:narellec@gmail.com">narellec@gmail.com</a></div>
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