Sunday, October 15, 2006
Singapore To Provide Free WiFi For Two Years
Posted by Nurhisham Hussein in "NEWS" @ 11:00 PM
"For many Singaporeans, whether at work or play, their lifestyle - from using cell phones to instant messaging - is already digital. The government wants to take one step further and make it all mobile. So, from January 2007, it will be rolling out wireless broadband Internet in all public spaces, called Wireless@SG, for free, for the first two years."
Just one more thing for Malaysians to envy about our southern neighbours - they get free access over the whole country while we have to live with patchy coverage and extortion...err...high access fees. Granted it's a pretty small country, but that hasn't stopped Singapore from rushing full steam ahead into the digital age. The government is also planning to subsidise PCs for poor families because "...at least 14 percent of households still do not have computers." :wink: Is broad coverage of wifi something you think your government should do, no matter the cost?
Just one more thing for Malaysians to envy about our southern neighbours - they get free access over the whole country while we have to live with patchy coverage and extortion...err...high access fees. Granted it's a pretty small country, but that hasn't stopped Singapore from rushing full steam ahead into the digital age. The government is also planning to subsidise PCs for poor families because "...at least 14 percent of households still do not have computers." :wink: Is broad coverage of wifi something you think your government should do, no matter the cost?
