CALGARY – The City of Calgary and Shaw Communications announced this week that free public Wi-Fi access is now available at 27 Calgary recreation locations across the city, including the most recent addition, the Calgary Soccer Centre.
“Calgary is a connected community, and recreation is committed to providing customers with access to online services and information,” said Heather Cowie, regional manager with Calgary Recreation, in a press release. “Our facilities serve as community hubs and this partnership with Shaw Communications creates more ways for people to connect to their community and their world.”
“Recreational centres play an integral role in bringing communities together,” added Greg Pultz, vice-president, operations, Shaw, in the release. “The partnership with the City of Calgary to provide free public Wi-Fi through the Shaw Go Wi-Fi network helps keep residents connected to the world and everything in it while saving their mobile data.”
The City of Calgary awarded Shaw Communications Inc. the contract to provide public Wi-Fi in City-owned locations in December 2013. There are over 40 City facilities connected to public Wi-Fi, including recreation centres, arenas, golf courses and CTrain stations. The service is available to any member of the general public and does not require a Shaw account.
The most popular recreation location based on guest connections is the Southland Leisure Centre, with over 160,000 connections to the network since the launch of public Wi-Fi in 2014. There have been over 3,000,000 connections to the Calgary public Wi-Fi service in total, with total data usage of almost 4,000,000 MB, says the release
The City and Shaw Communications Inc. continue to work together to expand the public Wi-Fi service and provide Calgarians with greater access to technology and City services.
Calgary residents and visitors can access the Shaw Go Wi-Fi network on their Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting ‘ShawGuest’ from the list of available Wi-Fi settings and following the on-screen instructions to connect. Shaw customers will be able to automatically log onto the Wi-Fi service through the Shaw Go Wi-Fi network.
A full list of facilities offering Public Wi-Fi is available at Calgary.ca/publicWiFi.
