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First Wi-Fi Town in UK is Swindon – Well Connected With Free Interweb Access

by Jay Garrett on November 17, 2009

Diana DorsThe Wiltshire town of Swindon has another claim to fame – other than being the birthplace of Diana Dors (hence the photo).

Swindon is also now to be crowned as the UK’s first Wi-Fi town – this means offering ‘free’ public Wi-Fi to all 186,000 residents.

By April 2010 the Wi-Fi “Signal” service will be in place and residents wont have to pay a penny for line rental or connection.

The deal is that peeping at low-bandwidth sites is free but users will be able to pay for a 20Mb upgrade. This fee would be “significantly less” than current broadband suppliers, scheme bosses estimate.

Downloading music files or streaming TV shows from iPlayer will inevitably cost extra, which will go some way to paying for the £1 million network which will be run by Digital City UK Ltd, in which Swindon Borough Council has a 35% share.

Over 1,400 Wi-Fi hot-spots will be erected, with work beginning in early December with the “Wi-Fi mesh” being completed by April next year.

Primarily aimed at residents, the Wi-Fi will also be available to visitors, albeit at a pay as you go price.

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BT Sharing Fibre Optic Internet With all the UK

by Jay Garrett on July 10, 2009

fibre-opticHere’s some good news for everyone as it’s Friday! :)

BT is bringing the high-speed lovin as it plans to install super-fast optic-fibre broadband throughout Britain!

British Telecom promise that over 1.5 million homes and businesses will have access to the connections by 2010.

Just in case the other ISPs feel a bit left out – BT say that they too will have access to the £1.5 billion investment into new tech, just as they did with Broadband Britain.

BT is claiming impressive initial download speeds of 40-meg, rising to 60-meg as the system picks up speed, beating Virgin’s 50-meg cable speeds currently on offer. Uploading will eventually rise to 15-meg.

Initial trials of the service went live this week and BT has now announced 69 more locations across the UK. Have a peek here and see if your area is one of them.

 

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USB 3.0 Specs Now Available

August 13, 2008 Click to read more →

There has been a rumbling about the specs of the rumoured USB 3.0 controllers.
Some have said that Intel have been dragging their feet to give themselves more time to design for it.
Today they have set the record straight saying the specs are now available and would be released for free, as planned.
As Intel’s ‘Fall Developer [...]