IP: Malaysia: Pizza Station quietly building a 4G network

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> Pizza Station quietly building a 4G network
> Business Times (Malaysia); Aug 2, 2001
> BY JENNIFER JACOBS
>
> WHILE the large telcos are testing out their 2.5G (2.5 generation) networks
> and slugging it out over who gets to have a 3G (third generation) licence to
> offer mobile broadband in the country, a pizza chain is quietly building a
> 4G network.
>
> The company, Pizza Station, is dishing out an offer which promises to whet
> the appetite of all pizza lovers and then some: "Buy a pizza and get free
> wireless broadband".
>
> "We think it's a tremendous value proposition... I think we will sell a lot
> of pizza," said its director of systems and finance Nicholas Iverson.
>
> --SNIP--
>
> http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=010802002415
>
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