Price of wireless broadband drops as 3 enters high speed territory

3′s new wireless broadband plans make Telstra’s Next G look shabby

“Both Next G and 3 now offer download speeds of 550 Kbps to 1.5 Mbps, peaking at 3.6 Mbps. You can download 70MB of data on Telstra’s Next G network for $29 per month while, for $30 per month, 1000MB plus 2000 minutes of Skype traffic is available on 3′s new X-Series plans.”

Hopefully this will trigger a price war. If they offer a Nokia N95 on an X-Series plan, I just may have to get one. X-Series labelled media disrupter, however Alan is underwhelmed. Hmm, maybe not.

Does Australia support One Laptop Per Child?

Richard Giles just posted an update on the One Laptop Per Child project. Nicholas Negroponte is one of my heroes, as is Michael Dertouzos. Despite the mention on the OLPC website of Australia seeking approval, I cannot find any mention of it on any government website.

Updated: 15/01/2007 – News from China’s People’s Daily Online – Rangan Srikhanta (treasurer with the United Nations Association of Australia) does!

Poor children lack opportunity, not capacity for learning reads a description on the OLPC website. By providing laptops to every child without cost to the child, we bring the poor child the same opportunities for learning that wealthy families bring to their children.