Australian company aims to roll out WiMax by 2007

The technology allows high-speed mobile data at a low cost

Australian wireless broadband company Unwired will make WiMax available to Australian users by 2007 and claim it will rival Telstra's broadband services.

Unwired chief executive David Spence says laptops with embedded mobile WiMax chips will be available to internet users in 2007.

His announcement follows agreement by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) on a new standard for the WiMax network, which now means that all technology and equipment created for it will be readable throughout the world.

"WiMax technology has been specifically developed to allow a lot of high-speed mobile data at a very low cost," Spence says.

"It is all very well to have expensive networks delivering high-speed data, but if the cost is too high then they don't work."

Unwired plans to use the WiMax while Telstra has chosen to offer its mobile broadband products on an updated version of its current 3G network.

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