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Adelaide Gets a Taste of Free WiFi

Posted by timothy on from the and-bits-there-flow-up dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Adelaide's Citilan network is being relaunched. Sometime in the last two weeks they decided to open it up for free use to anyone in Adelaide's CBD, pending full commercial launch. Get in and find a hotspot while its hot!"

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  1. where? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    It makes very poor manners to name a city without naming the country you're talking about.

    Background on Adelaide in Australia - the one mentioned in the article:
    http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/council/about/c ouncil-history.htm
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide

  2. Re:Rebranded? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    'Citilan' was changed to 'Citylan' because Citibank sent nasty legal letters.

    'Agile' as an SSID is probably because they're handling the hardware; I imagine they'll change it over when people are actually paying money for it.

  3. Re:Agile? Doing citywide wireless? by mattjb0010 · · Score: 2, Informative

    From the people who brought you "extreme ADSL2+" while only enabling 4 actual exchanges. This oughtta be a laugh

    Firstly, there are another ~40 planned for 2005, and these are being held up by the evil oligopolistic Telstra.

    Secondly, the wireless points connect via standard ethernet into Agile's backbone network, I believe.

  4. My Home Town!! by CypherOz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Adelaide is a fantastic city! Surrounded by park lands - great place to work and live. Great weather, wine beaches, food, dining entertainment, and free wireless!

    Also: Wikipedia on Adelaide

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