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OCBC offers free WiFi hotspots on Orchard Road, Sports Hub and bank branches

OCBC offers free WiFi hotspots on Orchard Road, Sports Hub and bank branches

One of the OCBC free WiFi hot spots located next to a bus stop on Orchard Road. Photo: Courtesy of OCBC

20 Jul 2016 09:15PM (Updated: 22 Jul 2016 12:21PM)

SINGAPORE — OCBC Bank now offers free WiFi at hotspots along Orchard Road, at the Sports Hub and at 33 of its branches, the bank announced on Wednesday (July 20).

The hot spots will provide free Internet access to anyone. The bank said the intent of the initiative is to help meet rising demand for mobile broadband.

In total, there are over 700 OCBC WiFi hotspots. The Sports Hub alone houses 684 hotspots - owned by Consistel network - covering the entire complex, including the National Stadium, Indoor Stadium and Kallang Wave Mall.

On Orchard Road, free WiFi is available up to 100m from the bus stops located outside Tangs, Far East Plaza, Royal Plaza at Scotts, The Heeren and the Royal Thai Embassy. And the 33 OCBC branches to offer the service are located in busy areas including ION Orchard, Ang Mo Kio and NEX Shopping Mall.

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According to the bank, around 30,000 people are expected to take advantage of the new hot spots each day.

Mr Dennis Tan, Head of Consumer Financial Services Singapore at OCBC Bank said: “By availing this free WIFI service to the public, whether you are an OCBC customer or not, we hope to entrench OCBC’s leading digital position in everyone’s minds.”

The bank’s move follows the government’s announcement back in April to make Singapore the country with the highest density of hot spots in the world by 2018 by doubling the amount of Wireless@SG hotspots to 20,000.

Free OCBC WiFi hotspots

Orchard Road

1. Royal Thai Embassy

2. Robinsons Heeren

3. Tangs Plaza

4. Royal Plaza on Scotts

5. Far East Plaza

Singapore Sports Hub

1. Kallang Wave Mall

2. Sportshub Library

3. Visitors Centre

4. OCBC Aquatic Centre

5. OCBC Arena

6. Water Sports Centre

7. Singapore Indoor Stadium

8. National Stadium

OCBC Centre

65 Chulia Street

OCBC Bank Branches

Ang Mo Kio

Bedok

Bukit Batok

Causeway Point

OCBC Centre

Choa Chu Kang

Clementi

Compass Point

Habour Front

Holland Village

Hougang Mall

ION Orchard

Jurong Point

Katong

MBFC

NEX

Northpoint Shopping Centre

NTU Branch

Orchard Gateway

Paya Lebar Square

Singapore Polytechnic

Sixth Avenue

SMU Branch

Kallang Wave Sport Hub

Sun Plaza

Thomson Branch

Toa Payoh

Vivo City

OCBC White Sands

JEM

SunTec City Mall

Punggol Waterway

Tiong Bahru

Source: TODAY
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