Next Cambridgeshire UK Towns Named for Free WiFi Rollout
The Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA), which is working alongside the Connecting Cambridgeshire broadband rollout project, has today announced the next set of three locations to benefit from their ongoing rollout of free public access WiFi (“CambWifi“).
The service is currently being provided at over 200 public buildings, as well as open spaces (i.e. usually across the centre of various towns, cities and villages in the county) around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough in England. In order to remind locals and let visitors know they can get online for free while on the go, eye-catching new stickers have also been appearing in Ely, Huntingdon, Ramsey, St Ives, St Neots and Peterborough.
Following the CambWifi launch in Peterborough at the end of last year, free-to-use public WiFi is now also being rolled out to more locations with Oxmoor, March and Whittlesey set to be next to be connected.
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Dr Nik Johnson, Mayor of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, said:
“The Combined Authority is passionate about strengthening connectivity within our communities. As well as helping people to stay connected whilst visiting our city and market town centres, having free CambWifi will enable local councils and business groups to improve services and offerings to attract more visitors.
We’re committed to supporting residents and the provision of free-to-use, safe and secure Wifi in public areas is just one of the ways we’re doing this. A big thank-you to Connecting Cambridgeshire who continue to raise awareness and have been putting up these stickers to let people know where they can save data and get online for free.”
How to access CambWifi
1. Find ‘CambWifi_Public‘ (SSID) in your device’s WiFi settings and connect.
2. Read and accept the Terms.
3. Click the ‘Log In’ button.
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We have so-called free Wi-fi in the city centre where i live, but the form that have to be filled in before access wants to know almost everything about you. They also use the Wi-fi if you use it or not to count the amount of people in town
I don’t go into town that often these days, nothing to go there for
Not my local authority, but when I think about the things I want from my council, free wifi is not on the list.
Filling potholes, emptying bins, improving parking, not wasting money on bread and circuses, not leaping on the Guardian’s latest bandwagon. In the telecoms space they all need to work cooperatively with network companies to make FTTP roll out quicker, cheaper and easier, and with mobile companies to accelerate 5G roll out and filling not-spots.
We had free Wi-Fi in Barnsley town centre years ago, it was reasonably quick and very reliable over a large area – yet it was turned off because hardly anyone was using it!
I’d have thought it would be even less relevant today given how cheap big/unlimited data packages are.
Seems like a waste of money devised by an out of touch committee.