Brighton and Hove is Wi-Fi hot spot (From The Argus)
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Brighton and Hove is Wi-Fi hot spot
4:50pm Monday 13th February 2012 in News By Neil Vowles
Brighton and Hove can claim top spot in the country when it comes to delivering Wi-Fi hot spots.
New BT figures have revealed the city is the most connected in the country with the highest density of free internet points of any major city in the country.
In total Brighton and Hove has more than 11,000 Wi-Fi hot spots which works out at around 130 per sq km.
The city has been named among the top Wi-Fi connected cities in the country and because of its relative small size means it stands alone in terms of hot spots per area.
London in comparison has 30 times as many hot spots but because of its huge urban sprawl has only around half as many Wi-Fi connections per sq kilometre.
Brighton and Hove also betters other cities such as Leeds with 92 hot spots per sq km and Cardiff which has 84 per sq km.
Business figures said the high Wi-Fi connectivity in the city was a boost for businesses and was changing the way they worked.
BT announced last week its Wi-Fi hot spot numbers have hit a new high with 3.5 million across the UK and Ireland.
In Sussex there are nearly 100,000 hot spots with Brighton and Hove, Chichester, Eastbourne, Hastings, Worthing and Crawley being the most connected in the county.
Alex Morrison, chairman of Wired Sussex and managing director of digital firm Cogapp, said: “It’s a very interesting thing about Brighton that people do get out and about and meet people and Wi-Fi lets people move around Brighton and socialise and interact creatively which is very good for the city.
“It’s part of why Brighton is such a great place to run a digital media business and why people are attracted to work in the city.”
Comments(10)
MattBChiro
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5:17pm Mon 13 Feb 12
jay316
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5:24pm Mon 13 Feb 12
So again mis-reporting by the Argos!
kkj
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6:40pm Mon 13 Feb 12
jay316 wrote:I'm pretty sure you (the user) don't need BT broadband to access them.
And they are not free if you have to have BT broadband to access them..
So again mis-reporting by the Argos!
Number Six
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7:12pm Mon 13 Feb 12
J Noble Daggett wrote:The dealers have got to communicate somehow
Nearly as many WiFi Hotspots as Crime ones then!
Tony Harrison
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9:39pm Mon 13 Feb 12
mustaphaLeeko
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9:41pm Mon 13 Feb 12
MattBChiro wrote:If you'd bothered to check with BT rather than moan, you'd find that it will be available by 31st March this year, currently most people in this area run over copper wires, not fibre.
Here at Sundial Clinic on Queens Road we get wired connection rates of about 4.5mbps. BT should be ashamed of themselves. (...up to 20mbps- nonsense!). If Brighton is a digital media hotspot BT must roll out their Infinity superfast broadband throughout the town centre now.
And yes, you can CURRENTLY get much faster if you are next to the phone exchange in Hove or the one in Kemptown, it's all down to the laws of Physics you know!
Archie Bun
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9:09am Tue 14 Feb 12
Man With No Name
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9:14am Tue 14 Feb 12
Morpheus
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9:59am Tue 14 Feb 12
J Noble Daggett says...
5:00pm Mon 13 Feb 12