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A WiFi zone that runs from Arawak Cay to the Sir Sidney Poitier Bridge is on the way through a partnership between Aliv, the Department of Information and Communications Technology and the Ministry of Tourism, officials announced yesterday.

The groups signed a three-year agreement to launch a “smart cruise port.”

Officials said the installation process began yesterday and is expected to be completed in the second quarter of this year.

The promise then was to introduce new technology such as broadband wireless service, and a mobile telephone system - to be used in rural areas.

Today, the Taiwanese government was living up to its promise when it officially inaugurated a new WIFI infrastructure and IP Telephone system.

Gatekeeper Systems Inc., a video and data solutions provider for public transportation and smart cities, has launched Gatekeeper Mobile Wi-Fi System, a new enhanced distant learning initiative that enables 4G and 5G broadband access for students. The Company has also received a purchase order of approximately C$560,000 from a school district to equip their fleet of school buses with the Mobile Wi-Fi System. The purchase order also includes a 12-month services contract that is renewable for up to five years.

The Mobile Wi-Fi System provides 4G or 5G internet connectivity for students and authorized users while the bus is transporting students or while the bus is parked in a neighborhood for the purpose of providing internet access to students who do not have suitable connectivity at home. Data is routed through the school’s content filters and network infrastructure to ensure that students are provided with a safe internet environment and that firewall-protected school content is accessible.

Kamill Panitzek and colleagues used an Android application to sniff out wireless networks in a small rectangular area in the center of the city of Darmstadt. In the 0.19 square-mile area, researchers detected 1,971 wireless routers, 212 of which had public, unencrypted signals. In the event of an emergency making cellphone and data network service unavailable, emergency responders could use the wireless signals of homes and businesses to communicate.

Hamilton may soon become one of Ontario's most high-tech municipalities, offering wireless Internet access throughout the city - all a lucky byproduct of the provincial government's plans to conserve energy.

The province's initiative requires standard residential electricity meters to be replaced with new smart meters - meters that offer two-way communication and realtime monitoring and adjustability. Installation will be done progressively and is expected to take until at least 2010.

The initiative, which would be driven by banks, according to the CBN’s Head of Shared Services, Mr Chidi Umeano, would enable customers access e-payment services in areas where the over 60,000 activated Point of Sale (PoS) terminals are clustered.

At the committee's meeting today, members said the project will help uphold Hong Kong's status as a leading digital city because the wider availability of Wi-Fi networks will facilitate the delivery of e-government services through wireless and mobile channels.

Hong Kong Cyberport, Hong Kong's IT flagship, and Cisco® (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced the creation of a pioneering model at Cyberport for a city-wide Wi-Fi network empowered by a Cisco wireless local area network (WLAN).

Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development Frederick Ma said he expected through this collaboration initiative more Wi-Fi applications will be made available for consideration by the Government and community for adoption, and better electronic delivery of public services will be facilitated.

More universities and hospitals providing public Wi-Fi on their premises.

Residents and visitors in Hong Kong can now get easier access to free Wi-Fi. The number of hotspots for the public Wi-Fi.HK service has increased to 12,000.

“The number of Wi-Fi.HK hotspots has been increased from the original 5000 at the launch of the scheme [in August] to the current figure of over 12,000", said a spokeperson from the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer.

The new programme extends wireless service to more than 40 new locations across Hong Kong, including popular tourist attractions, locations of high patronage and new types of premises such as law courts, civic centres and police report rooms.

A "smart city" in Thailand supported by a single communications network supports kiosks, outdoor Wi-Fi, street lighting, parking and more, according to a press release.

The 5G Open RAN Smart City in Ban Chang, Thailand is able to support use cases across industrial robots, factory automation, remote telemedicine, aviation, logistics and agriculture.

free-hotspot.com hat heute bekannt gegeben, dass die polnische Stadt Szklarska Poręba seine erste „Free HotSpot-Zone“ in Europa ist. Dieser Titel bedeutet, dass der öffentliche WiFi-Zugang überall im Ort durch ein lückenloses Netzwerk von kostenlosen HotSpots bereitgestellt wird. Der kostenlose WiFi-Internetzugang wird nun in über 50 Hotels, Restaurants, Cafes und anderen öffentlichen Einrichtungen im Stadtzentrum und den umliegenden Gebieten angeboten.

In his spare time these days, 28-year-old farmer Ravi Singh Chauhan, a resident of Shivnathpua village in Madhya Pradesh's Rajgarh district, scours the Internet learning new farming techniques or keeping in touch with friends and family on WhatsApp.

Tucked away in one of Madhya Pradesh's most backward districts, a quiet digital revolution is taking place as over 1,200 villagers across two villages, have become netizens with free internet since October.

"Die Anzahl der weltweiten Telefonverbindungen explodierte mit der Ausbreitung der Mobiltelefone, die das Telefon zu einem ganz persönlichen Gegenstand machten", sagte Sean Maloney. "Gleichzeitig hat das Internet eine schier unersättliche Nachfrage nach Rechenleistung ausgelöst. Wenn wir es nun schaffen, allgegenwärtiges Breitband auf Basis offener Standards anzubieten und die Innovation in den Bereichen Leistung und Energie auf Computer- und Telefonplattformen voranzutreiben, dann ist kein Abbruch des enormen Wachstumspotentials des mobile Computings in Sicht."

du and the office of Deputy Chief of Police and General Security in Dubai, have announced a collaboration to launch Alo WiFi in labour housing complexes across the UAE, as the first authorised WiFi service of it kind in the country.

Alo WiFi will be launched in multiple housing complexes to provide blue-collar workers with access to affordable, high-quality wireless internet and improve their quality of life and well-being by offering an economical way to keep in touch with their families and friends. The one-of-a-kind service allows blue-collar workers to compensate for a lack of entertainment, communicate with loved ones, and save money, while also reducing illegal Wi-Fi resale activities, which pose complex security and regulatory challenges.

Up to 8,000 communities stand to benefit from new free wireless internet to be installed in public spaces

If you’re in the Wi-Fi network installation business in Europe, you might be about to get extremely busy. The head of the politico-economic union said its member states will be investing dramatically in Wi-Fi connectivity. The reason: to “empower” its subjects.

“Every European village and every city” will be equipped with a total of an equivalent of 134 million dollars-worth of non-payment, free wireless Internet by 2020.” The installs will occur around the “main centers of public life,” Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Union’s executive body, said in a state of the union address a few days ago.

A Truro-based grants specialist has welcomed a new EU fund providing free Wi-Fi to over 6,000 communities.

The new €120 million (£108 million) European Commission programme, which opens later this year, will help provide free public Wi-Fi networks across Europe.

The European Parliament has on Tuesday approved a resolution that creates a financial scheme for local wireless access points in the EU, free of charge and without discriminatory conditions.

The budget of the WiFi4EU scheme is EUR 120 million between 2017-2019. It will support the installation of state-of-the-art Wi-Fi equipment in the centres of community life, such as parks, squares, public building, libraries, health centres, and museums.