FREE Hampshire UK Community Wireless WiFi Broadband to Go Live in Leigh Park
By john_matrix | Friday, July 16, 2010, 20:04
Hampshire County Council, Havant Borough Council and CommunityUK (CUK) have teamed up to launch a FREE Wi-Fi wireless broadband service for the Leigh Park, Havant area. Unlike other projects of a "similar"
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Free wifi
nature in the UK, this one really does claim to offer FREE 24/7 access
and has taken place without requiring hundreds of thousands of pounds
of investment from Government at any level.
CUK will officially
launch the service in Warren Park this month, following several weeks
of heavy testing. The project itself runs off a supposedly "self-sustaining"
model and is claimed to be a pilot scheme for a wider UK roll-out. From
here, the scheme will be rolling out RAPIDLY across all of Leigh Park,
with completion expected in mid to late September.
The CommunityUK Free Wireless Broadband
project has put together a launch event for Friday July 18th at Warren
Park Primary School in Leigh Park. Guest speakers, such as David Willetts - Minister of State - (Universities and Science) Business, Innovation and Skills and Valerie Thompson – Chief Exec of the e-Learning foundation, will be attending.
The
service itself should work with any WiFi equipped device from laptops
to Smartphone's. Users will merely need to search for the network from
their device, connect to it and then signup via their website browser
before being fully connected to the FREE for faster PAID wireless
service.
Comments
Great to hear you are continuing to roll out free broadband across Leigh Park. Coffee morning sounds a good way to sign up for it.
By Will40 at 10:45 on 07/02/12
ReportThe project is continuing to roll out to all parts of Leigh Park. We are currently live in Warren Park, Middle Park way area and parts of West Leigh.
We will be attending the Leigh Park Library Coffee Morning in March to give a demonstration and sign up residents.
If you would like any more information please visit http://tinyurl.com/7tcc3tg Thanks
By loopy1980 at 20:35 on 06/02/12
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