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Why salivate our mouths with these trevia for? Like as if any amount of thummping will enter into the heads of our UMNO leaders? They got RM600 million to spend in 200 UMNO Divisions. you think even one of those division leaders has an iota of brain cells inside to think "internet"?

FREE.

In the first place, our hope of service improvement is already luxurious...

Singapore! Singapore! Why are you always one (many) steps ahead of us? Give our Government a break, ok. We are neighbours, right. Don't made a monkey out of us, please.

Singapore! Singapore! Why are you always one (many) steps ahead of us? Give our Government a break, ok. We are neighbours, right. Don't made a monkey out of us, please.

As part of a business plan, a proposal for a free service hotspot at a popular beach resort was forwarded to a local council. This is to be an enhancement to other services aimed at the tourism market.

You can guess what happened - the council reject the proposal based on the undesirable elements available on the internet. Furthermore, they argued that most Internet cafes were used as gambling den and games centre despite the fact that their officials were on the take otherwise they would have the power to close those illegal cafes/dens.

The point I am trying to make is, if there is no "incentive" for those "Napoleon" nothing gets approved. In fact the business license was rejected.

That was 2 years ago. I am lost for words but life goes on.

VMY 2007 no visa required but marriage cert essential!

oh man, it doesn't get any more 'kiasu' than that.

on secnd thoughts, theres gotta be a catch - this is singapore, is there really a free lunch on that rock across the causeway?

Dear Jeff,

This news should serve as a wake up call to Telekom and other telcos in M'sia to seriously look at where they are right now.

I wonder what catch S'pore govt has in order to make their citizens enjoy life in that "little red dot". It goes to show if you want it, it can be done - "Nak seribu daya tak nak seribu dalih"

Looking at our pathetic GLCs esp Telekom Bhd I wonder, if ever, will we enjoy the same kind of excellent wireless internet connection service as our neighbours down south do right now. Just goes to show how knowledge coupled with high sense of professionalism without crony capitalism can achieve a lot. Because of these, I'm increasingly becoming cynical & pessimistic about TMNet offering the same thing here. All rhetoric but no substance...

Its a good thing but a lot of places in Singapore already provide free WIFI access, like Mc Donalds and even in apartments, you have so many free wireless hotspots to choose from, courtesy from subscribers who open up their connection.

i am making this post from my laptop using free wi-fi connection from my room in strand hotel, bencoolen st singapore.

today i walked around the city surveying its well planned amenities and i wondered if i'll ever see the day when malaysia's self declared developed state can achieve a similar atmosphere of a modern efficient city. it will be a long way coming looking at the urban squalors that are parts of klang or cheras today.

i think it is a frustration many can understand...

Only in SG...

Does that includes the South Johor Economic Region (SJER) that Pak Lah "sold" to SG?

for thoese interested, free wireless@SG islandwide covers almost all townships in Spore, not only central business district, tourism spots, also in bus interchange, MRT stations, shopping centres, etc.
If your flat is close to the wireless coverage, you might be able to enjoy FREE wireless from your own home.

see the maps here

Singapore Gomen provide you with facilities, but take good control of the tools and facilities provided.

Malaysia Gomen cannot take good control of the facilities and thus could not allow you to enjoy it and considered it as restricts.

Singapore Gomen will prosecute Bloggers who publish the mislead articles but Malaysia Gomen to ask their mainstreams to twists the real truth, afraid that if to provide for a such facilities, there will be more blogger to come out to speaks the truth, the real truth and nothing but the truth which will jeopardized their mainstream medias status of plagiarisms and twisted facts publishers.

So because they’re too many bad elements in the Internet, so restrict the Internet access. And because Our Prebet use his M16 and shoot in Chowkit, we should ban the recruitment of prebets then. Right? The Gomen!

We loves Sandiwara Jokes, so we keep many Pelawak in our House, Right !

Ya...Botoi...

We should sponsors coconuts and bottles for our MP to attend their meeting in the House. So that they can saves their throats and voices by just showing their Ya...and Botoi...

Why would a government want to provide free wireless internet to their
people? Why not just let the market/demands define the supplies? They can easily charge users for something like SGD10 to recoup their investment. And why it is only free for 3 years? Clearly the SG government objective is not just simply providing convenience to the residents(who already has low-cost/hi-speed fixed broadband). It is a strategy to boost their IT industry instead as metro-scale wireless network is one of the emerging technology trend. Users will be hungry for applications when the network is there, thus this will promise good returns for companies who can provides them.

Look at Korea, for how the government invested heavily to give the country a headstart in country-wide broadband adoption. With a real test field, the entrepreneurs there has been developing all kinds of application and services(especially MMORPG) long before their competitors outside Korea. When broadband adoption begin to happens in other countries, they can sell their products which are well tested and matured easily.

That's also why Google and some other big dotcom companies are sponsoring some metro-scale mesh wi-fi for free in some US cities. They need a real user base to develop their ideas and products.

While our Malaysian government always like to say that we can't just simply compare ours to Singaporean's, why not just create one that covers areas at least like KL+Bangsar+Damansara+Subang+USJ.

Boleh!,
Please take note on the price to pay for unauthorised wireless Net access from other subscriber's wireless Internet connection in apartments.

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SINGAPORE Teen, 17, first to be charged with unauthorised wireless Net access

A polytechnic student charged with piggybacking on another's wireless Internet connection, may face up to three years in prison and $10,000 in fines

Straits Times
Saturday, November 11, 2006

By Chua Hian Hou

A 17-year-old polytechnic student has become the first person here to be charged with piggybacking on someone else's wireless Internet connection.

Garyl Tan Jia Luo was accused yesterday of using a laptop computer to gain unauthorised access to a home wireless network on May 13 this year.

If convicted, Tan faces up to three years in jail and fines of up to $10,000 under Section 6(1)(a) of the Computer Misuse Act.

Tan was released on $6,000 bail and is scheduled to appear at the Subordinate Courts on Wednesday.

Court documents did not describe the circumstances in which Tan was arrested, but The Straits Times understands that a neighbour near his Casuarina Walk home had lodged a complaint against him.

While there are no statistics on how commonplace the practice of piggybacking unsecured home wireless networks is, networking firm Cisco System's spokesman, Mr Rayson Cheo, said it is probably quite widespread here.

Most modern notebook computers and personal digital assistants (PDAs) have the ability to sniff out unsecured networks and hop online for free with just a few clicks.

There are numerous guides online that describe how to do this and the low cost of wireless networking equipment means that most HDB or condominium blocks have unprotected networks users can log on to.

Said Mr Cheo: "People assume, wrongly, that since it is there, it is okay to use it."

Mr Aloysius Cheang, the chairman of local infocomm security association, the Special Interest Group in Security and Information Integrity, said: "Most people probably do it because it is convenient, or because they are cheap and want free Internet.

"But, for some, it is because they want to do something illegal like defaming someone or downloading pirated MP3s, and they don't want the activities traced back to their own network."

In the online world, there are even special terms for it, like "wardriving" and "Wi-Fi mooching."

The problem, said lawyer Bryan Tan, is that while most people know that mooching is not quite legitimate, they probably do not know that it can be treated as a serious offence.

"Blinkered by the convenience and allure of free Internet," people don't realise that mooching is the virtual equivalent of trespassing," he added.

Likewise, many users do not seem to realise that they can block moochers simply by installing a password on their Internet connections.

For most users, the only indication they get that someone is mooching is when their connection speed slows down, though Mr Cheo said software tools are available for download that can track who is using a network and what they are doing on it.

While the case is the first of its kind here, there have been at least two similar arrests and convictions in the United States.

In some countries like Holland, Mr Tan added, Wi-Fi network owners can even be held liable by the courts for crimes committed on their unprotected networks.

Date Posted: 11/11/2006

Hey, this is wrong.

Why "Selangor, the developed state" not getting it?

;)

nothing is free in singapore. Maybe it is a way the government monitors the population. who knows.