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 …