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 [...]
Wireless for the people, all of Swindon will soon be online
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 19 November, 2009 to the technology subset
Australia the wireless economy, in the making at least
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 7 September, 2009 to the technology subset
In terms of telephone usage Australia is well on the way to becoming a “wireless economy” with the number of mobile phones in use now outstripping land, or fixed, line phones.
For the first time this year, the communications giant Telstra has had more mobile phone subscribers than fixed-line subscribers. Mobile phones now outnumber fixed [...]
