Free public Wi-Fi speeds, hot spots to double

SURFING speeds on Singapore’s free public Wi-Fi service, Wireless@SG, will be more than doubled to 5Mbps by the end of this year, as the Government sees the network as a key enabler of Singapore’s smart-nation vision.

The number of Wireless@SG hot spots will also be doubled to 20,000 by 2018 to better complement telcos’ 4G networks in meeting consumers’ rising demand for mobile broadband.