Wireless Networking In The UK?

["Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>]

Seems it has begun, now if we can just get more than a few train
stations. :)

K.


> \1/ Wireless Net Access at UK Railway Stations
> 
> Laptop and PDA users will soon be offered wireless high-speed
Internet

> access at 15 of Britain's major railway stations.
> 
> Megabeam, a European wireless ISP, said it has reached agreement with
> Railtrack - which currently owns the UK's railway infrastructure - to
> install Wi-Fi hot spots based on  802.11b at nine London
terminals and
six
> regional stations:
> 
> The 15 stations involved in the trial are Waterloo, Kings Cross,
Euston,
> Paddington, Victoria, London Bridge, Liverpool Street, Fenchurch
Street,
> Charing Cross, Gatwick,  Birmingham New Street, Manchester
Piccadilly,

> Leeds Central, Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley. According to
> Railtrack, some 650 million customers use these  stations each
year.
> 
> BT has already announced ambitious plans for Wi-Fi in the UK. It is
> trialling several hot spots ahead of a commercial launch of its BT
> Openzone service, due in August. By  summer 2003 it plans to
have
built at
> least 400 hot spots in locations such as hotels, shopping centres and
> coffee shops.
> 
> There had been concerns that BT would effectively monopolise the
UK's
Wi-
> Fi market, but Megabeam's tie-up with Railtrack indicates that BT
could
> face stiff competition.  Good luck to them.
> 
> Source: ZDNet (http://www.zdnet.co.uk)

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