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Adelaide Gets a Taste of Free WiFi
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!"
The first one's free, when you want some more you know where to come.
Sounds like a pretty sensible promotion.
Who said crack dealers have nothing to teach service providers?
Starsucks
What kind of fee will they be charging once it's commercial? Also, wouldn't it make sense to require people to register a free account so that the migration will be more structured?
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do we really need a story everytime a new city gets free wifi? It was cool and progressive the first dozen times it happened but now it's just about as exciting as reporting on SBC running fiber optic lines in a new area (which is to say, not very)
NEWS FLASH:
Hackers can already get your information from anywhere in the world!
Why? People do it with American and British cities all the time and it's not considered poor manners. Also, this is a story that will only actually matter to anyone who lives in Adelaide or is going to Adelaide in the near future, so if this is the case it is likely that they would at least know which country Adelaide is in.
Personally I don't mind at all if they say just the city name if it's in the biggest four or five cities of a major country. I do however mind if there is several cities of the same name, it is a small or obscure city, or they are using abbreviations that noone outside the area knows. (American states anyone?)
Only if it's followed by a two letter abbreviation.
If you said 'Adelaide, NJ', or 'Adelaide, AZ' they'd all think they knew what you were on about even if they didn't.
It's OK Bender, there's no such thing as 2.
Hasn't Citilan always been open for free (at least for members of a long list of ISPs including Internode, Adam, Esc.Net, and others)?
Yes, yes it has. The difference is currently it is open for anybody, not just account holders of a few ISPs.
There's always a bunch of (no offence, but they are always) asians around some of the more public indoor hotspots
Wow, how positively racist, and +4 interesting too.
I see people all over the place using it, and no more than the usual quota of asian people around adelaide. Seems you've noticed a couple of extreme cases and applied your labels. But, lets be thankful the aboriginies that do nothing but get drunk in the Adelaide park lands don't get enough "spare dollar mate?" donations to buy a new apple powerbook with built in wireless!
You are right though, they are going to close it off and move to a reasonable subscription service. It is a private service after all. It will be much cheaper than Telstra's wireless hotspots, that's for sure. Damn them for making a buck
I did hear talk that if you use a Node login on it you chew up your Node download quota for the month; but that was just a rumour, I've never heard proof of it.
At least you admit there is no proof