Helen Coonan (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

The answer to that is no. The chipsets will be available, I think, at the end of 2008. They will be manufactured by Intel. The claims that have been made about this particular technology are not correct. I particularly note that Austar has now selected Nortel as the preferred vendor for deployment of a WiMAX network. It clearly demonstrates that WiMAX is an appropriate technology for Australia. The class licence spectrum band is being utilised by the majority of wireless broadband providers in regional areas and is capable of supporting the high-quality services which OPEL will be implementing, including a 12-megabit speed.