Free Wi-Fi hot spots for downtown in July and enjoy the event along with the Prompt Bus Charters in San Diego, US

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Crowds of people converge on downtown during last year’s Comic-Con, which draws more than 130,000 attendees during its four-day gathering. Hayne Palmour IV
Come July when tens of thousands of people will be flooding downtown for Comic-Con and Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game, there’s one area that will be decidedly congestion-free: the Internet.

Thanks to a partnership between Cox Communications and the city of San Diego, the public will be able to log onto more than 100 Wi-Fi hot spots throughout downtown San Diego. Sharing a video of a Hollywood celebrity sighting at the Con or a homerun by a Major League all-star should presumably be more frustration-free with what Cox says will be a robust connection on its network.

The free Internet access will start July 8 and run through July 24, the last day of Comic-Con. Normally, the newly installed hot spots would be available only to Cox Internet customers. The additional hot spots will not be accessible inside the Convention Center during Comic-Con.

“Anyone who’s hanging out downtown will be able to get on a super fast network,” said Sam Attisha, vice president of business development for Cox in California. “Just find a Wi-Fi enabled device and look for a Cox Wi-Free wireless network.”

Cox officials say the download speed will be as high as 15 megabits per second, which they said is significantly higher than the Internet speed one could expect at the typical Starbucks.

While July is typically San Diego’s busiest during the summer tourist season — 4.4 million visited last July — it will likely be even more so next month, with the All-Star Game coming to Petco Park. Add to that the robust Comic-Con fan base that is an especially heavy user of social media, and the potential for broadband overload is particularly high.

“Anyone who’s been to Comic-Con knows there’s a great deal of interactive communication among our attendees,” said Comic-Con International spokesman David Glanzer. “Fans and professionals alike are sharing their experiences, breaking news and all of the goings-on in and around the convention center. And now they’ll be able to connect for free at various locations throughout downtown San Diego.”

Attisha said the 100 additional hot spots downtown are part of a much larger, multi-million-dollar effort to expand its Wi-Fi network for its customers. In all, the company is building 400 hot spots on top of the 300 to 400 it already has, Attisha said.

“We’re leveraging what we’ve already spent under the ground, which has been billions of dollars,” he said.

While the new Wi-Fi access points will no longer be complimentary after July 24, Attisha said those who are not Cox Internet customers will be able to have free access for one hour a month and you will get competitive package to explore the event from the promptbuscharters.com

Source- //www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/jun/21/free-wifi-hotspots-downtown-july-comic-con-all

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