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Billed as the "race that stops the nation", there's talk that the 2020 version will be the "race that starts the nation" given the COVID-19 craziness, so how you do watch The Melbourne Cup live from anywhere you can get a mobile or Wi-Fi data connection?

The Melbourne Cup is the race that stops the nation, and watching online is a great alternative to watching on TV, so what are your options?

Vodafone has reported a 47% data usage increase on its mobile network during the 2018 Melbourne Cup, along with a stack of other winning stats.

The Melbourne Cup is the race that stops the nation, and watching online is a great alternative to watching on TV, so what are your options?

If you want to watch the Melbourne Cup, and you're nowhere near a TV or a TAB, then you catch watch from your smartphone or tablet, and at around 3 minutes long, you won't ruin your data limit.

Twitter, Seven Network, and the Victoria Racing Club (VRC) have announced a deal to live stream the 2017 Emirates Melbourne Cup to an Australian and global audience, but only at certain times.

Australian small businesses are using data and technology to prepare for the Christmas rush “in ways they never could before”, according to cloud accounting provider Xero.

There’s but hours to go until the iconic race that stops the nation starts, and here’s where you can watch the spectacle live and free.

On the eve of the Melbourne Cup, gamblers have been warned by Scamwatch that “confidence tricksters” are on the hunt for more victims. The warning comes in a year when Australians have already lost more than one million dollars to “con artists” pushing sports investment.

The Melbourne Cup generates millions of transactions and billions in revenue for small businesses on the morning of the race, but according to a survey from accounting software provider Xero it can be costly in terms of loss of productivity for SMBs.

Horse racing fans who follow links on Google looking for Melbourne Cup news on Fairfax websites this year will be directed to the site of the Sydney Morning Herald, and not The Age, despite the fact that the race is arguably Melbourne's biggest sporting event.

It was the race that stopped the nation, but if you didn’t stop to watch it, here’s your chance to see it for the first time - or again.

There’s not long to go before the iconic race that stops the nation - here’s where to watch the Melbourne Cup live!

If you want to watch the 2015 Melbourne Cup live from your smartphone, tablet, PC or Mac, here’s how and where to go. 

Did you miss out on seeing Australia’s 2014 Melbourne Cup and want to watch it right now? It’s the race that stops the nation and these days even the planet - here it is!

Sure, you can watch the Melbourne Cup on TV, but if you want to watch it from your smartphone, tablet, PC or Mac, there’s only one place to go. 

The 2014 Melbourne Cup’s mobile Internet service is reported to be sorted, with Telstra, Optus and Vodafone increasing capacity in various way to keep the punters connected.

Online retailer Kogan is offering a $1 million cash prize in a free-to-enter Melbourne Cup tipping competition.

Cisco's announcement that it has been chosen to install Wi-Fi at Flemington racecourse was exquisitely timed and full of the usual hyperbole, but it's a good story and it's about much more than just Wi-Fi.

Racegoers at Melbourne's Flemington racecourse will get Wi-Fi thanks to a deal between the Victoria Racing Club and Cisco. The bad news is that it is scheduled to be up and running in time for next year's Melbourne Cup, not tomorrow's.