Tag: public wifi

Are we a modern city?

Case in point … why do we not have broad­band access to every­one in the (wider) city?

This from Singa­pore:

Singa­pore gets free wire­less con­nectiv­ity with Wireless@SG while no one gets left behind in the digit­al revolu­tion. Find out about how the Singa­pore Gov­ern­ment is reach­ing out to more Singa­por­eans and equip­ping every­one to take full advant­age of the digit­al oppor­tun­it­ies that are open­ing up.

So why don’t we do that?

Is it a case, as some think (in the com­ments), that the Gov­ern­ment should stay out of provid­ing infra­struc­ture and leave it to the private industry (to which I assume they are refer­ring to Tele­com or Tel­straClear)?

To be fair the Coun­cil is doing some­thing about it – read their broad­band plan

Wel­ling­ton City Coun­cil­lors have agreed to a vis­ion that could see afford­able, high-speed broad­band access through­out the city by 2012.

But we all know how fast tech­no­logy moves (have you seen the just announced, 2cm deep Apple MacAir?) and so this prom­ise for 2012 by our Coun­cil seems, at best, lim­ited in vis­ion and at worse, a huge missed oppor­tun­ity. For instance, what we’re prom­ised for 2012 South Korea has had for 3 years.

A pos­sible solu­tion for you after the jump …