ZAP Montérégie

Montérégie Sans Fil to Les 3 Brasseurs

Les 3 Brasseurs now offers our Wi-Fi servies.

Amateur of homemade beer and of good meal? Owner of a Wi-Fi card? If yes, then Les 3 Brasseurs’ the restaurant made for you, since this restaurant gives the Montérégie Sans Fil’s wireless service to its customers for some time. We finally put the feet in the Dix30, where we hope we shall make one break through. This is another advance for Montérégie Sans Fil, and it will not be the last.

If, however, you are to interest to know the site of our other hotspots, consult our Hotspot Map.

The Web on the grass of the Plains

QUEBEC CITY – Tomorrow, wireless Internet will be usable on the Plains of Abraham. Four demarcations of ZAP Quebec network were installed in the strategical places there: the Pavilion of services, in the Edwin-Bélanger newsstand , in the Jeanne-D’ Arc garden and in the Site of big events.

It is a popular vote, in the site MoijeZAP.com, that elected the Plains of Abraham as the place favoured to connect up in Quebec City. After the Montcalm Palace, ENAP, the Laval University, dozens coffees and trade and, more newly, the terraces of Grande-Allée, ZAP Quebec free network targets now the gentle dales and the points of service of the big urban park.

It is a good news for the walkers, the tourists and the employees of the vicinity’s buildings , that will be able to be connected to the Web in open-air or to the points of service’s shelter of the Commission des champs de bataille nationaux. For our friends journalists, the coverage of concerts, shows and other events held on Plains will be greatly easier!

Functioning is simple: provided with a mobile apparatus, the users can be connected to network, register and follow the link which will be sent to them by electronic mail to confirm their inscription. We have access to a supplement of 30 minutes for this inscription, after what it is necessary to be connected with his user name and his password.

Le Soleil – 2009 July 25th

Antidote got unplugged!

DELSON – The Maison de Jeunes de Candiac finally got unplugged. It can consequently count on a free wireless Internet rather than by regular cable with the help of the OSBL Montérégie Sans Fil. It’s a whole privilege when we know that few public areas use one such service in Rousillon.

If about 180 places exist in Sherbrooke where it is possible to be connect by wireless Internet without expenses, 175 in Montreal and just as much in Quebec City, figures in Montérégie leave astonished : only 27.

The founder of Montérégie Sans Fil (MSF), Raymond quintal, is categoric.

“Regions need adjustement, as he starts. As soon as we get out of big centers, it is not easy. It is necessary to go to the library mostly. We need this to change. We want to overturn the steam and to democratize the access to Internet.”

Free, really? Almost. The non-profit-making organism which he coordinates asked for 100$ in cost of equipment for the Maison de Jeunes, less than the normal expense for it, and contents itself of an annual service payment of 50$. A symbolic sum when we consider that the technicians are all volunteers and have to move with their money. Presently, the help of the government is necessary for the distribution of the wireless Web.

The Web for everyone

Antidote is the only Maison de Jeunes to offer Internet without wired connection. This does not have the reason to exist for the fonder of the OSBL.

“Governemental services are completely online : Unemployment, old age pension, etc. Even scholastic projetc of the primary school requires a connection to Internet”, continues the founder.

For him, fixed rates wobbling between 40$ and 60$ a month cannot find takers at the poorest. Reason as which the society has the obligation to palliate this situation.

Le Reflet – 2009 July 24th