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    The NSW Department of Commerce has today come a step closer to selecting a provider to implement its plan to blanket Sydney's CBD with free Wi-Fi, with rumours surfacing that Unwired is now the leading contender.

  • NSW calls for free Wi-Fi builders

    update: The New South Wales government has called for expressions of interest from industry groups to build and operate its planned free Wi-Fi broadband network.

  • Iemma: NSW CBDs will get free Wi-Fi

    Central business districts of key cities in New South Wales will get free Wi-Fi broadband within the next three years, under a plan announced today by the state's premier Morris Iemma.

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    It seemed like a good idea at the time

    Last week, I lamented the growing tendency to slam perfectly valid technologies as unsuitable for new uses, just because they prove to be unsuited for applications for which they are inherently unsuited.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    The horror of random connections

    If you're one of those people who likes to complain whenever their Wi-Fi connection even temporarily flickers, then being forced to use older connectivity technologies is a useful reminder of how much we have to be intermittently grateful for.

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