A wifi City
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23 Sep 2008, 14:30
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7631163.stm
Seems to me like a damned good idea, you can get a service called Urban Wimax but it costs £300 a month minimum. However I dont see why you cant have free public wifi in every major city.
Seems to me like a damned good idea, you can get a service called Urban Wimax but it costs £300 a month minimum. However I dont see why you cant have free public wifi in every major city.
You can use wifi almost everywhere for example in Budapest.
Ofc for free. So its just a PR for london.
Trondheim > *
:D
i'd rather buy some umts/wap cell for "everywhere internet", thats alot cheaper and fast enough for mobile stuff
i wish they'd do it here aswell.
actually, they should create accesspoints all over the world so you can access the internet everywhere.
or just improve satellite conenctions...
You can. The problem is that our government doesn't listen to any advice when it comes to technology. And, without them, there's no way to get free wireless without a commercial interest.
This is exactly the same. Almost everyone in the IT industry is screaming for money to be spent on consumer internet infrastructure (data centres in London are the busiest in the world). Heck, even if they don't get money, they just want a decision about who should pay for it.
There's no reason why we can't have nationwide fibre' connections by 2012 if the government pulls its finger out. McDonalds have free wireless and computers in most of their restaurants, by the way. TosspoT is not above McDonalds!
"McDonalds have free wireless and computers in most of their restaurants, by the way. "
..? If you're saying that what they're doing is out of commercial interest, then what's wrong with that becoming more widespread? (ie. almost every public, commercial, building having free wifi)
"data centres in London are the busiest in the world"
Understandable, since it's a major hub between Europe and North America.