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
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.
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
