Penang state in Malaysia increases public Wi-Fi bandwidth by five times.
Residents of Georgetown city in Malaysia can now access free public Wi-Fi at twice the speeds.
Penang state announced that the public Wi-Fi bandwidth has been increased from 75Mbps to 375 Mbps. This allows each user to enjoy speeds upto 1Mbps, up from 512Kbps in the past, in Georgetown city and across the state.
The government will spend RM1.84 million (US$498,915) annually to run this upgraded service, an increase of RM300,000 (US$81,344).
Penang started the free Wi-Fi service in 2009 and has 1550 hotspots and 600,000 registered users across the state. On average 20,000 users log in to the service every day.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Medha Basu
Quelle/Source: futureGov, 17.03.2015
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