{"id":8020,"date":"2014-11-07T10:32:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T10:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=8020"},"modified":"2014-11-07T10:32:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T10:32:33","slug":"brighton-hove-deploys-free-wifi-service-across-13-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/11\/brighton-hove-deploys-free-wifi-service-across-13-libraries.html","title":{"rendered":"Brighton and Hove Deploys Free WiFi Service Across 13 of its Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brighton and Hove City Council in East Sussex (England) has announced that 13 of its local libraries will now be able to offer free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wifi\">WiFi<\/a> wireless Internet access thanks to their new hotspot deployment, which was conducted alongside The Cloud (BSkyB).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Apparently the <strong>Jubilee Library<\/strong>, which welcomes over 1 million visitors each year, was the first location to trial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wifi\">WiFi<\/a> with The Cloud in 2013 and has since seen a 44% growth in device usage year-on-year (the number of minutes spent online per month also reached over 1 million during early 2014).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Demand for mobile internet access has exploded<\/em>,&#8221; said Russell Phillips, Royal Pavilion, Museums &amp; Libraries ICT Consultant. &#8220;<em>This started with laptops and has now expanded with a huge number of visitors using tablets and smartphones. 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