Telstra asks users to be its next backhaul network

All aboard the WiFi offload bandwagon

With a single announcement, Telstra has accidentally skewered the argument that fixed networks are obsolete: the carrier plans to rollout a $AUD100 million cities-and-towns WiFi offload network, which will shift traffic from smartphones and tablets off the 4G network and onto the nearest bit of copper oxide^* it can find.…

via The Register - Networks

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