Free CityLink Plus for Students

 

Angela Tang

In response to our President's call to maximize students' learning opportunities, the arrangement for students to use the CityLink Plus service which provides direct Internet access from home has been reviewed.

Although many students are eager to use the service and there is spare capacity in CityU's share of Internet bandwidth, the number of student subscribers has been found to be relatively small. This is identified as the consequence of the existing departmental Internet budget scheme since a student who wishes to use CityLink Plus free can only obtain budget from his/her department.

To remedy this unfavourable situation, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) has arranged free CityLink Plus for students. Under this new scheme, each successful applicant will be granted a budget of ten free connection hours per month from the Central Internet Budget. For details on the scheme and the application procedure, please refer to the message "Central CityLink Plus Sponsorship for Students" in PolyLink's bulletin board #000 - CSC Facilities and Services.

After this new scheme took effect in early November, the number of student subscribers had increased 40 folds within 1 month. Obviously, more students can now benefit from the service.

Again, this reflects CSC's effort in providing better service to our students. However, the scheme may be reviewed when necessary depending on the availability of Internet resources.

Computing Services Centre City University of Hong Kong ccnetcom@cityu.edu.hk