Telstra, Australia's leading telecommunications company, has partnered with NetComm Limited, Australia's leading provider of data communication technology and the world's leading 3G embedded module manufacturer, Sierra Wireless to launch a new mobile broadband device.

For the past year, Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile unit and AT&T, two of the largest phone companies in the world, have claimed that the FCC's proposal to require a free nationwide wireless broadband service that competes with DSL will not work because the service will cause interference to their operations in adjacent spectrum bands.