RoamAD, Kordia and Auckland City Council come to an agreement for Wi-Fi to be built around the city: kordiasolutions.com
<Kordia™ has signed a Heads of Agreement with the Auckland City Council to deploy a Metro Wi-Fi network throughout the Auckland CBD, main streets and CBD fringe.
This follows a ‘request for information’ issued earlier this year.
Users will be able to log on in any location inside the coverage zone, with free access to the Council’s ‘walled-garden’ featuring a number of related sites. Users will not require a monthly ISP account to do this.
“There were obvious synergies between the wholesale model the Council wanted for its public Wi-Fi network, and the deployments Kordia™ is already making in partnership with RoamAD in Auckland and elsewhere,” says Kordia™ CEO Geoff Hunt.
“We were already delivering what the customer wanted to achieve, so we had a certain edge,” he says.
Due to commercial sensitivities, further details on negotiations between the parties are unavailable at this time.
“We are looking forward to working closely with the Council to iron out the details of this new Wi-Fi service in the New Year,” says Hunt.
For more information, please contact:
Emma Morrison, Kordia™ Communications and Brand Manager
+64 21 916 647 / emma.morrison@kordia.co.nz / www.kordiasolutions.com
About Kordia™
Kordia™ is an experienced trans-Tasman business, and is fast-becoming one of the region's leading providers of customised broadcast and telecommunications networks, network services and converged solutions.
Kordia™ owns one of the largest telecommunications networks in New Zealand and is the major provider of television and radio broadcast facilities. In Australia, Kordia™ provides design, build and maintenance services to the broadcast and mobile telecommunications sectors as well as engineering services throughout the region.
Kordia™’s business is built on creating harmonisation – the ability to meld customers’ ideas into an operating reality, managing convergence in technology in today’s fast moving world.
The name Kordia™ comes from the Latin ‘accordia’ meaning harmony – bringing people and technology together as one. >
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