Saturday, November 27, 2010

Virgin Media Mulls Wi-fi Network

Virgin Media is mulling the thought of developing a national wi-fi network to vie with opponent BT.

It mentioned it had been desirous by line operators who have launched wi-fi in other countries.

The line broadband definite certified it would be a "massive undertaking" and that no definite skeleton have nonetheless been drawn up.

But it mentioned it could offer a improved substitute to 3G networks for the who long for information on the move.

"We are seeking at way to intersect information services. 3G networks are reaching a ability break and wi-fi could unload traffic and offer a vastly higher on the whole throughput," mentioned a Virgin Media spokesman.

"People are using a accumulation of services and there is a perfect request for information anyplace people are," he added.

Virgin Media experimented with a small-scale wi-fi network at this year's V festival.

The Virgin orator described it as a "useful experiment" and mentioned people were using it "in welfare to 3G".

Virgin Media has been examination developments in the US and the e.g. of firms such as Cablevision that has launched a wi-fi network in New York.

It is expected that any wi-fi would be segment of a gold of extras for broadband customers, in a identical way to how BT offers the service.

BT now runs the UK's greatest wi-fi network, with scarcely 4,000 hotspots in the UK.

Its wi-fi pity service BT-FON has 1.6 million open hotspots around the world.

Members of BT-FON consent to safely share a portion of their wi-fi connection by a well-defined channel, creation it existing to other members who are in range.

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