VANCOUVER – Shaw Communications is helping the City of Vancouver to grow its free public Wi-Fi network to over 600 locations throughout the city.
About 550 free public Wi-Fi locations are currently active, with the remaining locations becoming active over the coming months. Bandwidth speed will generally be 10 Mbps and there is no limit or cap on data usage. No personal information is required to access the VanWiFi network.
“Like our partners at the City of Vancouver, we understand how important it is to have access to a broadly available Wi-Fi network in the places we frequent the most,” said Shaw’s EVP and chief marketing and culture officer Jim Little, in the news release. “This vast expansion of the #VanWiFi public network will give residents and visitors to Vancouver easy connectivity in the busiest locations across the city, whenever they want and need it for free.”
In 2014, Shaw was one of the vendors selected by the City as ‘pre-qualified’ to supply free public internet at identified, and future, locations in Vancouver. After 42 locations were equipped with #VanWiFi in 2015, Shaw was chosen for the second phase in 2016 to provide VanWiFi at 15 locations, including all nine City-owned social housing sites and six outdoor sites, expanding the existing #VanWiFi network at no cost to the City.
