[AusNOG] Anyone know about this? High speed internet for Queensland's Richmond graziers

[Narelle]

No, it's more than just one family getting service. It's a community of
interest for sure, but my reading of it is 'carrier license required'.
Definitely could be wrong, but someone would need to be the designated
licensee.

They may have used one of the newer ones (I note a couple of community
based ones in the latest list) or it may have been the council coordinating
things. That would add yet another local council getting a carrier license.
In this brave new world of IoT I expect to see more and more of that and
services evolving quite differently.

For those wondering about licenses - the best place to look is here:
http://www.acma.gov.au/Industry/Telco/Carriers-and-service-providers/Licensing

Always interesting to see what the new ones are up to...


Narelle


On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 6:29 AM, Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag at rendrag.net>
wrote:

> From the article, it sounded like they'd had internet delivered to the
> council, and then did a mofo wireless link from there to their property?
> Which being that the link is only providing their family's internet access,
> wouldn't require a carrier license?  (Though I'll admit the last time I
> really took any interest in the legalities of such things was 2001, so
> things may have changed..)
>
> On 23 January 2017 at 15:38, Narelle <narellec at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> [Just wondering who it was got the carrier license - N]
>>
>>
>> High speed internet for Queensland's Richmond graziers
>> ABC Rural By Eric Barker
>>
>> Posted Wed 21 Dec 2016, 9:40am
>> PHOTO: William Harrington from Harrington Systems Electronics and Olga
>> Downs station, north of Richmond. (ABC Rural: Eric Barler)
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> The service was set­up by the Harrington family, who live at Olga Downs
>> station about 50 kilometres north of town.
>>
>> William Harrington from Olga Downs said building a new internet service
>> was a necessity for running his electronics company on the station.
>>
>> "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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> "We've hooked into a fibre optic cable running from Townsville to Mount
>> Isa and it's extremely expensive," he said.
>>
>> "It was cost prohibitive for us to do that by ourselves in a small town.
>> "So we've partnered with the local council to be able to do that and it's
>> a win­win for both of us."
>>
>>
>> etc from:
>> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-21/high-speed-internet-
>> for-richmond-graziers/8134462
>>
>>

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Narelle
narellec at gmail.com
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