Auckland City and ISP sponsor free Wi-Fi for June in central business district: Reach Wireless, which uses RoamAD's Wi-Fi mesh technology, has launched its central business district (CBD) service in New Zealand's Auckland City. The CBD and Reach are sponsoring free Wi-Fi with a downtown purchase through the month of June as a promotion.
RoamAD's VP of business development Martin Levy said that service speeds range from 500 Kbps to 1.5 Mbps throughout the three-kilometer-square covered area. Pavements have been marked with a "Wi-Fi Zone" tag, and people in orange suits and hard hats--for visibility, Levy said--are handing out information packets during June (see inset photo).
Regular service costs are NZ$8.50 (US$5.27) for an hour, NZ$16.95 (US$10.50) for a day, NZ$49.95 ($30.97) for monthly users that the press release describes as "light" (600 megabytes of transfer), and NZ$74.95 ($46.47) for "uncapped reasonable use service": 10 gigabytes per month after which your service speed may be capped at 256 Kbps.