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Wireless Manchester
Posted 8th December 2006 at 12:00pm by M1ke, tagged as News, Technology | Commenting Closed

Manchester could become the biggest free wireless internet hotspot in Europe under plans unveiled by the city council.

San Francisco became the first large city to announce municipal Wi-Fi earlier this year, and now it's coming to the North West. With growing problems in cable based systems due to ageing infrastructure, and increased desire to have high speed access to the internet anywhere the initiative makes sense, though as yet no details of exactly how they'll create the hotpsot have been released. It is likely that it will be standard Wi-Fi, as the new Wimax technology that was touted a few months ago probably won't come into commercial use for a few years yet. An interesting question would be exactly how many transmitters will be required considering the current Wi-Fi range - it would seem silly if they had to lay tons of cables to give wireless access.

Along with BTs new fibre optic system in south Wales it seems that Britain's communications technology is finally stepping up to the mark set by the US and the Far East.

• Link to BBC, Manchester Wi-Fi

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