Singapore is promising to have nationwide WiFi by the end of 2006. It'll be interesting to see how an inherently anonymous system like WiFi will play out in a country where a national firewall and monitoring are employed to interdict, catch and punish socially or politically unorthodox Internet users.
I'll be in Singapore, keynoting at the State of Play conference, just after New Year's, so I'll be able to check this out myself.
The official report released with the unfurling of the Intelligent Nation program pointed out that Singapore already had one public hot spot for every square kilometer at the end of last year. Communication between hot spots will be augmented by mesh networking, according to the Intelligent Nation report. Commercial WiMax–a wireless standard that allows signals to travel over longer distances than those using Wi-Fi–will begin in Singapore by the end of the year, said Chang.
(via Digg)
