Interesting idea to distibute wifi in Scotland. While the pilot might work technically can the council use public money to provide broadband access in areas where it’s already being provided by the market place? Cardiff Council & BT had a similar venture in 2004 so I guess there must be a way of doing it. Although I live in Cardiff I’ve never taken my laptop into town to try it.
The Cloud and BT have a similar idea but using BT payphones instead. Don’t see many of those around outside of town centres these days but maybe the business traveller (who doesn’t want to go to Starbucks) in the town centre is who their aiming it at. This concept might work for WiFi enabled phones although I suspect hotspots will be too patchy for it to be that useful.
Internet lampposts to be trialled
BT & The Cloud
