Singapore will have nationwide Wi-Fi
As part of Singapore’s Intelligent Nation 2015 program, the island nation will be able to boast of countrywide Wi-Fi coverage in a few months, Bill Chang, executive vice president of wireless service provider SingTel, said in a recent interview.
“At the end of the year, Singapore will be one mega hot spot,” he said. “They are breaking Singapore into three regions and looking at ways to maximize coverage.”
The country had a pretty good head start. The official report released with the unfurling of the Intelligent Nation program pointed out that Singapore already had one public hot spot for every square kilometer at the end of last year. Communication between hot spots will be augmented by mesh networking, according to the Intelligent Nation report. Commercial WiMax–a wireless standard that allows signals to travel over longer distances than those using Wi-Fi–will begin in Singapore by the end of the year, said Chang. Source: CNet
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October 9th, 2006 at 2:29 pm