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- dhaen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This is no big deal. The "City of London" (ie the banking and finance area) is only about 1 square mile.
There are parts of London that still can't get broadband! - duncantuna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3God, am I sick of these type stories!
The key sentence is " Users can opt for business subscriptions or pay-as-you-go accounts. " -- meaning the network is not free.
My city had the same story a few months back, and the city officials and media gushed all overthemselves about how it will advanced our city.
No it won't. This is simply another network you can buy a subscription for, like XM or Sirius, that you can pay for if you want it. -- Guess what? The cell phone companies have a network RIGHT NOW that you can use to get the net on your laptop. Did the media go coo-coo bananas over that? No.
FREE Wi-fi, now that's a story. These "network" stories are worthless.
Move along. Nothing to see here. - TheBaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"The Cloud.... they allow free Nintendo DS Wi-Fi access! Awesome!"
My thoughts exactly. - maram500, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I am officially sick of all these "city-wide" wi-fi networks. As many have said, when an entire city has wi-fi coverage for free and only for free, then we have reason and chance to celebrate. This is just lame, as are so other stories today.
Why wan't we get free internet access? Were it not for free wireless access at my university, i wouldn't be doing half the stuff I do now.
P.S.: Anyone with a wireless network that isn't secured should be rounded up and shot. - DoubtfulSalmon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2FTA: "The City of London Corporation is all set to have Wi-Fi network in place covering the entire city"
.. and in news just to hand, a bunch of greedy mismanaged telcos sue the City of Lon...
No, wait, this isn't America. - joshpape, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2ditto dhaen. 1 sq mile. so what
- ngl470, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hello, this is Nigel CEO of Thamesonline.com and meshhopper.com (the technology).
We are glad to see an interest in our network. We currently have 4000 registered subscribers with no advertising, PR, or marketing. Our network TOTALY secure as ALL traffic is encrypted and authenticated via our www.ipass.com servers. We are trialing a free service paid for via advertising. Thamesonline is a showcase for a UK nationwise wifi network rollout that is starting January 2007. Please note that this will be for Wifi, internet access at home and on the move. Wifi phones are the future of mobile communications. In the house, in the office out and about.
We are way ahead of the big telco's they are coming to us. Its our own technology and better than than any other system.
I am open to any questions or suggestion you may have, our customers our king!!!
Also we can supply you with these wifi phones for home and mobile use. How would you like a wifi/gsm switching phone?? :D - Jams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lebski / Ben : Do you work in the wharf? Just wondered, as its weird other dig users should be so near..
- MWWLSE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1dhaen is right. The City of London Corporation only controls a very small area.
- bede, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Like others have said, the 'city' is 1 sq mile already networked up to the hilt anyway.
Not much chance for us up here in Tottenham :( - crunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lots of people have said it already, but the title is completely misleading, "The City" is probably about 5% of londons total area
- amaclean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not really a big deal, we've had free wifi in the central parts of bristol for over a year now. Nothing like surfing the web on your pda whilst the gf tries on all thos bloody clothes.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1280760,00.html - Ornella, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0With the new Nokia, we'll be able to talk with VoIP in The City...Now that it will have a wifi connection
- jonathanex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The Cloud.... they allow free Nintendo DS Wi-Fi access! Awesome!
- jedeye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This sucks, why is it not free.
Dugg - chrisbudden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There are plenty of wireless networks, both public and private, encrypted and unencrypted already in the city.
- jonathanex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0duncantuna - No, the key sentance is the one mentioning Nintendo using it for their Wi-Fi games. :P
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Even at Scumbag College?
Wow, hard to imagine Neil, Vivian, Mike, and Rik will have access to free Wi Fi before I do.
Wankers. - docxxvi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0neat another useless atempt at being "up to date" whip dee.... they should be pioneering free (or at least flippin cheap access) and canary wharf/docklands would be a better place to start ... flag wifi id be happy paying for FTTH if england wasnt so flippen backwards and has no idea what it is!
- TCMTCM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It isn't "totally" wi-fi enabled, it's restricted to the City, a 1 square mile area in the heart of London. It's not even free.
I was expecting for me to wake up in a few weeks and get free internet access :(
Misleading title, as with many digg stories. - weiran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What I really want is Wi-Fi internet on the trains into London. They've got it in the Brighton-London link, I want on the Dover-London line :).
- MarshallM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's a frauds dream!
Luckily this means that with the Nintendo DS using 'The Cloud' for Wi-Fi, while the important financial businessmen are on break they can have a giant game of multiplayer hangman. Well that's about as useful as i can imagine this being! - amigiac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Plenty of AP's around the Barbican, mostly residential and open, have a wander around the highwalks with a PDA.
- cbeach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Also in today's news (The Register):
"The country's biggest Wi-Fi network has been launched in London. Thames Online will provide about 12km of seamless coverage - from Westminster to Greenwich - along the river." .. "Thames Online is offering free access to the service until April for the first 5,000 to sign up. Apparently, about 500 punters have taken the plunge so far."
http://www.thamesonline.com/Welcome/default.aspx
Get them while their hot! - acontorer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We need a feature to correct obviously wrong headlines and summaries. In the meantime, reported as Inaccurate.
- DEIx15x8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Probably part of the set up for the 2012 Olympics. Torino is wi-fi for all the olympic areas and parts of the city because of them.
- JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"This is no big deal. The "City of London" (ie the banking and finance area) is only about 1 square mile.
There are parts of London that still can't get broadband!"
yeah. sux. someone crack it anyway. - armcurl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ThamesOnline is an interesting point. If there's a cloud over the Thames, one over The City and (there's already) one over much of Islington and Upper Street, we're not doing so badly so far.
Not sure how much use I'd get out of the Thames service - my office is on the Thames and we already have (secure) wireless that covers much of the immediate area. Good heads up though. - januarys, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i was wondering myself why they didnt take advantage of the opportunity that would have come from putting this in canary wharf - especially if they aleady have operations going on in that area.
but of course, The Cloud's underground batcave is located in the bank district. does anyone else think james bond is about to take this guy out ?? the cloud? - frem001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0already up in canary wharf, it's not free and very few people live in canary wharf.
- mathew_bug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, this is kinda OLD:
http://digg.com/technology/City-wide_wi-fi_rolls_out_in_UK
50 days ago - januarys, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@lebski
i havent been to england in quite a while but as i recall, there were plenty of businesses out there. am i remembering incorrectly? sounds like they could benefit from a good wifi plan?
i am with the rest on too much citywide wireless. security is not well established enough with these things to make them the big reliable giant. - lebski88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Canary Wharf Wi-Fi is £5 for an hour. Totally ridiculous. Currently London has the second highest number of wifi points of any city in the world - although given its size this still means it has patchy access. Free wi-fi if your close enough to my flat (you can probably pick it up as you float past the Thames barrier). No trying to steal my files though; hopefully my two part router system thingy will stop you. It seems to stop my neighbours anyway.
- zetsurin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I'm in Old Street right now, I hope that is considered part of the city of london...
- maht, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0excellent, WEP cracking up to 350,000 workers is going to be sweet
- Mattman723, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0But what does this mean for _America_? jk
- thepirat3king, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0What better way for the UK to keep track of people. Great. Thumbs down.
- Sleight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Well The Cloud company is backed by Al Queda, I see what's going on here :)
- themepsp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Every hackers dream to have something like this.. ;)
-- tom
http://www.themepsp.com - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Hackers unite!
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