London financial district to get Wi-Fi coverage

The wireless access is supposed to be in place within six months

By Jeremy Kirk

February 20, 2006 12:00 PM ET

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IDG News Service - London's financial district -- known as "the City" -- will have saturated Wi-Fi access within six months, city officials announced today.

The City of London Corp. said it entered a partnership on Thursday with The Cloud Networks Ltd., a high-speed wireless network provider with operations in the U.K., Sweden and Germany. The network will be installed in existing "street furniture," including lamp posts and signs, within the area, which is about a square mile, the City authority said.

Demand has increased for wireless coverage as the City's 350,000 workers want access to the Internet and e-mail as they shuffle between meetings in different buildings in the district, a City spokeswoman said.

The Cloud won the bid for a contract to install the network, but the value of the deal has not been disclosed, said a spokeswoman for the company.

The Cloud runs Wi-Fi hot spots at several London locations, such as Canary Wharf, the British Library and Coffee Republic, a chain of cafes.
Operators such as BT Group PLC and Nintendo Co. rent time on The Cloud's network, she said. Those operators in turn charge their customers for the service.

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