{"id":11,"date":"2007-07-05T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T02:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/2007\/07\/next-step-in-broadband-internet-war\/"},"modified":"2007-07-05T12:31:19","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T02:31:19","slug":"next-step-in-broadband-internet-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2007\/07\/next-step-in-broadband-internet-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Step In Broadband Internet War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The G9 Consortium has fired it&#8217;s next salvo in the war of words with Telstra over the continuing debate over high-speed broadband in Australia.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"80%\" cellpadding\t=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td class=\"linkbox\"><a class=\"linkboxtext\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.australianit.news.com.au\/story\/0,,22016573-5013040,00.html\">G9 Chiefs Approve Network Bid<\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>After Optus and Elders secured almost $1Bill(AUD) from the Australian government to build a WiMAX network in regional areas, the G9, led by Optus, is now making it&#8217;s play for the metropolitan market.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;G9 CEOs have met to consider the government&#8217;s announcement and we were unanimous in our view that the G9 should proceed to prepare a bid to build such a network,&#8221; said Michael Malone, chief executive of iiNet.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, there is going to be a lot more to-and-fro, and &#8220;media release battles&#8221;, before this all sorts out. But for the sake of Australian internet users &#8211; please let it be soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The G9 Consortium has fired it&#8217;s next salvo in the war of words with Telstra over the continuing debate over high-speed broadband in Australia. G9 Chiefs Approve Network Bid After Optus and Elders secured almost $1Bill(AUD) from the Australian government to build a WiMAX network in regional areas, the G9, led by Optus, is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}