panOULU – open & wire­less net­work

City is like a café – with free wifi!

panOULU is an open wire­less net­work in the city area. It was launched in 2003 and has been expand­ed sev­er­al times over the years. At its best, the net­work is used every month by more than 60 000 indi­vid­ual users. Using the net­work is free of charge for its users, and it is pro­vid­ed in co-oper­a­tion by the city of Oulu, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu, Oulu Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences, and sev­er­al oth­er actors in the area. The net­work has about 1,500 access points and cov­ers the city’s main pub­lic areas, ser­vice points and cam­pus­es.