{"id":17067,"date":"2017-08-18T03:05:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T07:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/?p=17067"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:13:40","slug":"italy-offering-free-wi-fi-tourists-across-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/italy-offering-free-wi-fi-tourists-across-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy Offering Free Wi-Fi for Tourists Across the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Italian government is making things easier through an app, Wi-Fi Italia<\/a>, that gives tourists internet access across the country. The app, which is available on Android and iOS, gives users access to 28,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across the country.\u00a0This concept is brilliant, and while it isn't specifically tied to tourists, that is how it is being marketed, which is in itself makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n

Who knows how fast the networks will be, but at a start, we can't complain about free. With significant coverage in tourist destinations, we can hope connectivity will be good, but can safely assume it won't be the fastest.<\/p>\n

\"Wi-Fi<\/p>\n

Over the course of the next year, coverage is going to be expanded to reach some of the less well-traveled corners of the country. The government aims ultimately to have almost complete coverage of the country.<\/p>\n

Overall<\/h2>\n

Consistent access to the internet has become a requirement for a majority of\u00a0western society. Many airlines offer Wi-Fi on board, either paid or complimentary like Norwegian<\/a>. You can even get Wi-Fi for as little as $10 per month<\/a> across several airlines\u2019 planes. But the problem is always when you reach your destination and have to switch to expensive data plan or find a place with free Wi-Fi, although you can rent a mobile hotspot at several airports<\/a> around the world. Hopefully other governments with a thriving tourism industry will take note of what Italy is doing and start implementing their own Wi-Fi networks. Connectivity is no longer a luxury, but rather a necessity.<\/p>\n

Source: <\/em>God Save The Points<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Access to free Wi-Fi at key tourist locations is one of the smartest things any city\/country can do to encourage the sharing of those sites. Italy has set up free Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the country, starting with key tourist locations, but will be expanding further throughout the nation in the coming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":17070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[12069],"tags":[],"coauthors":[36383],"class_list":["post-17067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17067"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255035,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17067\/revisions\/255035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17067"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}