ComputerWeekly has a lengthy update on the deployment of municipal wireless as it expands out from the city of London and Manchester to 12 other communities across the United Kingdom.ComputerWeekly has a lengthy update on the deployment of municipal wireless as it expands out from the city of London and Manchester to 12 other communities across the United Kingdom.
The networks are operated jointlly by The Cloud and British Telecom. According to the article:
Separately, BT signed deals with 12 councils to give a dozen UK cities widespread Wi-Fi coverage. BT will fit Wi-Fi antennae in the streets to create zones where people can get wireless access to the internet. BT aims to have the first six cities live this year‚Äö?Ѭ?.The Manchester City Centre project will be followed by Birmingham, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Nottingham and Oxford, along with the London boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea, Camden and Islington.
Michael Hulme, a professor at Lancaster University’s Institute of Advanced Studies, applauded the spread of municipal wireless broadband, saying “There will be relatively seamless connections to business enterprise systems from quite small devices, with fast pipes both ways, and heavy opportunities for data manipulation and business intelligence.”
He also offered pointers for businesses seeking to secure communications across the networks.
to read the article and Hulme’s pointers.
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I don’t remember BT actually offering a Municipal Wireless offering and this statement is no advance. I can see BT steralising a whole town by blanketing it with wifi, yet no one really knowing its there.
The good Muni WiFi proposals help areas that need assistance, aid local businesses, driven more inward investment, etc
Better if BT could figure a ‘no-cost’ service for transient users, just like Norwich!
I agree – we see these sort of announcements all the time about how such and such a place is getting “city-wide” Wifi. I know of no deal that’s been done in Oxford as suggested by the BT/Cloud press release. And I’ve been trying to persuade council members and so on here to take a greater interest in munifi for Oxford.
We’ve only just moved to “phase two” which is to try to bring in the various influencers in the large businesses and services, including economic and technology development and support organizations, to create enough interest to take a proper city-wide, socially owned (though not local government led) infrastructure forward.
I don’t remember BT actually offering a Municipal Wireless offering and this statement is no advance. I can see BT steralising a whole town by blanketing it with wifi, yet no one really knowing its there.
The good Muni WiFi proposals help areas that need assistance, aid local businesses, driven more inward investment, etc
Better if BT could figure a ‘no-cost’ service for transient users, just like Norwich!
I agree – we see these sort of announcements all the time about how such and such a place is getting “city-wide” Wifi. I know of no deal that’s been done in Oxford as suggested by the BT/Cloud press release. And I’ve been trying to persuade council members and so on here to take a greater interest in munifi for Oxford.
We’ve only just moved to “phase two” which is to try to bring in the various influencers in the large businesses and services, including economic and technology development and support organizations, to create enough interest to take a proper city-wide, socially owned (though not local government led) infrastructure forward.