{"id":1517,"date":"2012-08-23T14:10:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T13:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2012-08-24T09:10:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T08:10:39","slug":"uk-isle-of-wight-college-students-gain-free-wireless-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/08\/uk-isle-of-wight-college-students-gain-free-wireless-broadband.html","title":{"rendered":"UK Isle of Wight College Students Gain FREE Wireless Broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 1,500 full-time students and staff at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwcollege.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Isle of Wight College <\/a>(IoWC) look set to benefit after a major IT upgrade delivered campus-wide access to <strong>free wireless broadband<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wifi\">wifi<\/a>) and Internet telephony.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The aim of the new network, aside from helping the college to keep up with modern technology, is to achieve much-needed savings by <strong>reducing classroom time<\/strong> and <strong>facilitating self-study<\/strong>. The government&#8217;s move to cut spending means that the education sector has been forced to find new ways of reducing costs and this is apparently one of those solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The network manager at the IoWC, <strong>Rosie Quelch<\/strong>, explained: &#8220;<em>The boom in personal mobile devices; be they smart phones, laptops or tablets has meant we have had to rethink our IT. We were faced with incredible demands from our student body to introduce wireless technology. 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