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Free Wi-Fi is now available at selected Telstra payphones around Australia, and the company plans to extend the scheme.

The Tas Bull Seafarers Foundation is providing internet connectivity to international seafarers entering Australian ports.

Free Wi-Fi is now available at 19 train stations on the rail line from Hornsby to Wyong in New South Wales, with Northern Sydney and Central Coast residents in the State getting greater connectivity on their daily commute.

Over the past two weeks, I have encountered three fake public Wi-Fi SSIDs.

Sydney Buses now have free Wi-Fi courtesy of Catch Oz but there is a catch – it is strongly advertising driven, asks for much more information than one would expect, and available content can be limited to partners (advertisers) news, sports, weather, offers, and entertainment content.

Public Wi-Fi should be free and ubiquitous, but just as the various cities and businesses rush to provide it cyber criminals rush to compromise it.

The Audi Centre Sydney has installed Tomizone’s Lightswitch Portal and Dashboard, meaning a managed service that delivers free Wi-Fi to Audi Centre Sydney customers. 

COMMENT: In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a new Wi-Fi bandwidth bully in town literally trying to steal the lunch money from consumers and small businesses, including telco service providers.

Ruckus is the first Wi-Fi maker to bring superfast 802.11ac Wave 2 equipment to market - we speak to Ruckus A/NZ MD Pat Devlin for details.

Free Wi-Fi could be coming to a Westfield shopping centre near you.

The City of Perth is creating a ruckus over the expansion of its free Wi-Fi network into Northbridge with more free high-performance Wi-Fi for residents, visitors and businesses using Ruckus Wireless equipment.

Civic East is the first part of Canberra's CBRfree Wi-Fi network to go permanently online with 250MB per user download per day, with another 11 business districts to be progressively wired up for free Wi-Fi by June 2015. 

The AdelaideFree Wi-Fi network operated by Internode in partnership with the South Australian Government and Adelaide City Council was formally launched today by the state Minister for Science and Information Economy Gail Gago.

AirTight Networks has opened an office in Sydney, with Carl Jefferys at the helm as country manager for Australia and New Zealand.

The new free Wi-Fi service at Sydney's Central Station is being delivered via Ruckus Wireless equipment.

Adelaide is set to be engulfed in free WiFi, with Internode today announcing a $1.5 million contract with the South Australian Government and the City of Adelaide.

Wollongong City Council is now providing free Wi-Fi throughout the city centre