In Manchester, the once-grimy Victorian city famous as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, Wi-Fi is being used, for the first time ever on this scale, as a way to bridge the digital divide.
“We wanted to give people access to the latest technology,” said Sean McGonigle, a local official who led the effort to build a network in Manchester. “In our wildest dreams, we didn’t envisage the impact it would have.”
With Wireless, an English City Reaches Across Digital Divide.
More evidence that innovating with Wi-Fi can bring a communications infrastructure at low cost. It won’t be long before a complete city is a “hot zone”, as they call it. Completely covered by a low cost network allowing all demographics to use it.
Opening the spectrum will increase the deployment of such infrastructure.
