British town Swindon is to offer its 186,000 residents free wireless internet access, in what is said to be a first. While basic access will be cost-free, users looking for a decent data allocation would need to start paying however.
Local authorities will set up 1,400 secure access points around town to create a “wi-fi [...]

BWM plans to include inbuilt internet access in some of its cars. Should the driver however travel faster than five kilometres per hour access will be automatically disabled, though passengers seated in the back of the vehicle would still remain online. I’m not sure there is any safe speed limit, no matter how low it [...]

An Amsterdam cafe chain, CoffeeCompany, frustrated by customers who were using their free Wi-Fi internet connection, but not buying much (or any) coffee decided to incorporate portions of their menu into the wireless network list customers would see on their computers.
They wanted to attract more students. So it installed WiFi in some of [...]

Why is your internet access so slow? Because “bandwidth hogs”, those having phone conversations over the net, or people constantly streaming videos, and the like, are clogging up the system.
What’s the solution? Data capping, or pay as you go download plans? Hmm, not sure about that.
A mere 5 percent of their customers are [...]

Depriving someone of internet access is essentially depriving them of a human right, according to a New Zealand government minister, Judith Tizard.
The internet is now so much an essential part of life and commerce that access to it can be seen as “a human right”, says Culture and Heritage Minister Judith Tizard. She made the [...]

In addition to 700 job losses, the pending closure of 61 Australian Starbucks cafes will also bring about a reduction of wi-fi hotspots in some Australian cities.
Canberra may be left with no Starbucks wi-fi hotspots at all, should the company decide to close all three cafes providing wireless internet access in the Australian capital.
Starbucks currently [...]

Mobile experts offer their opinions. With data transfer rates of A$150, or more, for one Gigabyte per month in Australia, the mobile web won’t be playing too big a part in the future of the internet in this part of the world.
According to Barbara Ballard however, the “mobile web” is only a part of the [...]

I don’t know much about how US internet access plans work or cost, but from what I can gather it seems like an “all you can eat for X amount of money per month” type of deal.
Having said that, it sounds like that’s about to change though, to a system more akin to Australian internet [...]