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posted by janrinok on Saturday October 01 2016, @11:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the Australia-rediscovered dept.

Melbourne Launches World-Class Free Wi-Fi Network

Victoria has cemented its reputation as Australia's tech leader with the launch of the country's largest and fastest free Wi-Fi network across Melbourne's CBD today.

Minister for Small Business, Innovation and Trade Philip Dalidakis joined City of Melbourne's Chief Digital Officer Michelle Fitzgerald at Southern Cross Station to announce the first of many Wi-Fi access points to be rolled-out across Melbourne as part of the Andrews Labor Government's $11 million Victorian Free Wi-Fi Pilot.

From today, visitors can use the VicFreeWiFi service within all Melbourne CBD train stations, the Bourke St Mall, Queen Victoria Market, and South Wharf Promenade at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.

[...] Once the Melbourne network is complete, the VicFreeWiFi service will be the largest free public Wi-Fi network of its kind in Australia, covering an area of 600,000 square metres across the three cities.

Running for five years, the project is managed by telecommunications company TPG, allows for up to 250 MB per device, per day – and does not require personal logins or feature pop-up advertising.

You might recall that we published a story that Bing Maps appeared to have misplaced Melbourne, changing it from the Southern to the Northern hemisphere:

Microsoft's maps lost Melbourne because it used bad Wikipedia data • The Register

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Microsoft has laid part of the blame for Bing Maps' mis-location of the Australian city of Melbourne by a whole hemisphere on Wikipedia.

Yes, Wikipedia, "the free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit."

Microsoft made its admission after your correspondent took to Twitter on Monday to do what we in publishing call "pimping"the story of Melbourne's mis-placement.

[...] Deletion may be an option because our exploration of the Wikipedia page for Melbourne suggests it had the correct co-ordinates back in February 2012. So there you have it: Bing Maps sometimes relies on Wikipedia data. That data can be edited by anyone and is therefore often contentious.

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/23/microsoft_lost_a_city_because_it_used_bad_wikipedia_data/


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  • (Score: 2) by KiloByte on Sunday October 02 2016, @05:20PM

    by KiloByte (375) on Sunday October 02 2016, @05:20PM (#409109)

    250MB for a day is plenty for general use, unless you were planning on hitting up YouTube or doing an apt-get dist-upgrade or something.

    In other words, unless you want more than basic e-mail (not HTML, so forget about aunt May or anyone from the sales/marketing department) or IRC.

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  • (Score: 2) by boltronics on Sunday October 02 2016, @10:29PM

    by boltronics (580) on Sunday October 02 2016, @10:29PM (#409168) Homepage Journal

    Oh rubbish. If you're using that much data just browsing the web (not including video-heavy content), you're probably in desperate need of an ad blocker or have some malware running in the background or something.

    I wonder how many pages of SoylentNews 250Mb would get you each day? Quite a lot I'll bet.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @05:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @05:29AM (#409828)

    You obviously don't know what IRC is.