Link: Singapore Plans Free Wireless Internet – washingtonpost.com
Singapore’s government said it plans to cover most of the island with public wireless Internet access by next year and offer nearly 10,000 subsidized computers to low-income students to offer digital opportunities to all its citizens.The government will increase the number of public wireless “hot spots” from 900 to 5,000 by next year as part of the plan, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told an audience late Tuesday evening while launching the Wireless@SG initiative marking 25 years of a drive to boost information technology in Singapore.
Bring it on! Could something like this ever happen in the UK? Heh. We’ll see.
“Could something like this ever happen in the UK?â€
Yeah right! there’s more chance of this government giving grants to farmers to teach pigs to fly than taking up this kind of wireless-UK initiative.
Nope! afraid we are gonna have to dream of a wireless Britain for a good 20 years more…
steve/itagg
i believe something along this line might be happening in France via ‘Fon’.