Tom, Having just returned from Seoul, I am all in favour of public wifi. In Seoul, every cafe/restaurant/etc provides free wifi and this enables me to roam around Seoul and receive calls on Skype or the very successful Kakaotalk system the Koreans love-all at no cost and do all my emails and other web stuff. Yes, for most wifi you need a password but after a few days you've got all the ones in your area and you're away. Also central Seoul has a free gov provided wifi network which works very well.
So I agree, public wifi is not new but by heck it is useful and saves you from having to get a prepaid sim for which calls are expensive (I have one of those as well but find most of my communications is via Wifi). Dr Bob Jansen Turtle Lane Studios PO Box 26 Erskineville NSW 2043 Australia Ph (Australia): +61 414 297 448 Ph (Korea): +82 10 4494 0328 Skype: bobjtls KakaoTalk: bobjtls http://www.turtlelane.com.au > On 25 Sep 2014, at 09:21, Tom Worthington <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 24/09/14 07:24, Karl Auer wrote: >> ... Not worthy of the same rights >> and freedoms that we would demand for ourselves? ... > > No, my point was that the ACT Government's public WiFi project is just a > PR exercise, not a serious communications project. There is no point > worrying about the details, as hardly anyone will use it and it will not > last long. > > The provision of WiFi in public places in cities is not a new idea, not > innovative and the sooner the ACT project is scrapped the better. I > suggest worrying about how schemes which are likely to be more widely > deployed at be more long term. As an example, Telstra's implementation > of "Fon" looks more significant: > http://www.telstra.com.au/broadband/wifi/ > > > -- > Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 > The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ > PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au > Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards > Legislation > > Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, > Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ > -- > Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 > PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au > Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards > Legislation > > Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, > Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ > > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
