{"id":7601,"date":"2014-09-16T13:38:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T12:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=7601"},"modified":"2014-09-16T13:38:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T12:38:58","slug":"pcq-solutions-develops-cheap-public-wifi-solution-small-uk-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/09\/pcq-solutions-develops-cheap-public-wifi-solution-small-uk-towns.html","title":{"rendered":"PCQ Solutions Develops Cheap Public WiFi Solution for Small UK Towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Llanidloes in Powys (Wales), which is a small town that&#8217;s home to around 3,000 people, can now benefit after local ISP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pc-q.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">PCQ Solutions<\/a> made a free public <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-124 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wifi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"wifi\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_wireless.php\">WiFi<\/a> hotspot service available in the area and it could soon arrive in similarly sized towns across the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Mini <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-124 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wifi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"wifi\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_wireless.php\">WiFi<\/a> service, which had previously been operated as part of a trial in two of the towns streets, officially went live on Monday. The ISP already helps to deploy city-wide WiFi services but, with costs of around \u00a3200k to install and \u00a3200k per year to maintain, such solutions aren&#8217;t ideal for smaller areas.<\/p>\n<p>However PCQ&#8217;s new Mini WiFi service is somewhat cheaper and comes alongside a price tag of around <strong>\u00a3500 per street<\/strong>. Crucially there are no on-going maintenance costs for the council, although we assume there might still be some cost if the service breaks and needs a repair.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Joe Lowe, PCQ&#8217;s Director, said (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsnorthwales.co.uk\/news\/138233\/town-gets-free-wi-fi-trial.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">News North Wales<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>As our base is here we thought it would be a great place to trial it. Things such as tourism require internet and having free Wi-Fi will bring in more visitors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So far we have achieved over 400 connections and over 350GB bandwidth has been used to date, and that is brilliant for an unknown service<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However PCQ aren&#8217;t the only low-cost wifi operator in the market, with others like CLANNET also able to deploy similarly cheap solutions to smaller communities. Never the less it&#8217;s always good to see competition and improvements like this would no doubt be welcome in other towns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Llanidloes in Powys (Wales), which is a small town that&#8217;s home to around 3,000 people, can now benefit after local ISP PCQ Solutions made a free public WiFi hotspot service available in the area and it could soon arrive in similarly sized towns across the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,476],"class_list":["post-7601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-wales","tag-wifi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PCQ Solutions Develops Cheap Public WiFi Solution for Small UK Towns - 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