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Anybody post this yet? Interesting stuff...

Rupert Murdoch, DirecTV Wireless Broadband
Murdoch makes his play....

Posted 2006-01-10 14:10:57

News Corp's Rupert Murdoch recently invaded the UK broadband scene with his purchase of EasyNet, a DSL provider with 2,600 miles of fiber and 36 POPs. In November, whispers began to surface that Murdoch was looking to get into the American broadband business too, after gobbling up a number of US online media outlets (IGN, Myspace, adware vendor Intermix).

Now some details are starting to emerge, and it it appears his plan it to spend a cool billion in conjunction with DirecTV to start a wireless broadband ISP, reports Bloomberg News. No hard details about what technology the companies will use, but it appears as if Wimax will be the front-runner - recall DirecTV executive comments from last August. story continues..


Full story can be found at...

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/71113