With the rise of things like LTE and HSPA+, the promise of free public Wi-Fi has lost some of its allure… but not all of it. iiNet has just rolled out 15 new wireless hotspots across the Perth CBD for its customers.
Announced in a blog post over the weekend, the iiNet hotspots offer free public Wi-Fi access to iiNet customers.
There are 15 hotspot locations across the city. Whenever you’re near one of the hotpots with a wireless compatible device in hand, simply select the ‘iiNet’ WiFi network and log in with your account details. You don’t even need to know your primary account username and password –- any email address and password associated with your account will let you onto the WiFi network.
The service will also work for iiNet subsidiary customers from WestNet and NetSpace, with Internode, AAPT and TransACT customers to get access at some point in the future.
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Hesh
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 10:36 AMbring this to melbourne too!
Karl
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 11:54 AMI fail to see how this is Free “public” WiFi when its only available to iiNet subscribers.
Denis Hands
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 12:29 PMNah, I think they have strategically set this up as a sorta metro mesh trial so then Lisa Scaffidi can go by her election promise by buying out the reconfigured hot spots
Foles
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 12:40 PMDammit…I miss out by a block!
Chris M
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 1:27 PMThis is not their own hardware however. This is a collaboration with aCure Technology. I should know, I helped install all those wireless nodes when I worked for them. aCure provide wireless AP presence to iinet in return for other services. Good business arrangement. The setup, also, is NOT a hotspot. It’s a mesh.
Chris M
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 1:32 PMhttp://nickcowie.com/2007/resourcesnet-metromesh-and-free-wifi-in-perth/
dave
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 2:04 PMawesome
Phil
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 3:45 PMNot sure why this is news – this has been in place for over 4 years! They’ve had an agreement with Tomizone since 2007.
http://www.iinet.net.au/press/releases/iiNet%20and%20Tomizone%20to%20offer%20free%20Wi-Fi%20to%20iiNet%20Customers.pdf
Good to see you guys are on the ball with up to the minute reporting….
However – I’ve NEVER, and I have tried many, many times, never been able to successfully connect to Tomizone with my iiNet user account. Has anyone actually been able to use this?
Chris M
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 4:36 PMExactly. iinet started out with the hotspot’s in the CBD, but then they hooked up with aCure Technology to use MetroMesh as the platform for their Tomizone expansion. This news is so bloody old it’s ridiculous.
Bob
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 4:13 PMWho cares, it’s iiNet, you’ll be able to connect to the WiFi but there will be some sort of service issue whether it’s DNS not working or webmail inaccessible.