Milton Keynes Investigates Wireless BB
Posted: 10th Jun, 2003 By: MarkJ
The lack of broadband coverage in Milton Keynes has forced the local council into investigating the development of its own method, starting with a trial of wireless access:
That's certainly what Milton Keynes Council plans to do. It's starting the ball rolling with a pilot scheme intended to test the viability of providing wireless broadband to the city's 212,000-odd citizens.
If all goes to plan, the first users to access the Internet using the Council's service, part of the initial 200-user pilot, could be surfing at high speed later this month, says Steven Jewell, MK's head of IT and the brains behind the project.
The irony is that despite its reputation as one of the UK's leading 'new cities' - site of the UK's first multiplex cinema, once home of Europe's largest covered shopping zone - Milton Keynes is cursed with a remarkably old-fashioned communications infrastructure. Its cable television networks, for example, laid down in a pre-satellite era, is first-generation infrastructure designed for the needs of analog signals not digital broadband services. According to Jewell, the area's cableco, NTL, isn't keen on making the significant investment necessary to bring the cable network up to date.
The Register also reports that BT should be able to extend ADSL to roughly 75% of the MK population by July, although this still leaves 25% out in the cold.
That's certainly what Milton Keynes Council plans to do. It's starting the ball rolling with a pilot scheme intended to test the viability of providing wireless broadband to the city's 212,000-odd citizens.
If all goes to plan, the first users to access the Internet using the Council's service, part of the initial 200-user pilot, could be surfing at high speed later this month, says Steven Jewell, MK's head of IT and the brains behind the project.
The irony is that despite its reputation as one of the UK's leading 'new cities' - site of the UK's first multiplex cinema, once home of Europe's largest covered shopping zone - Milton Keynes is cursed with a remarkably old-fashioned communications infrastructure. Its cable television networks, for example, laid down in a pre-satellite era, is first-generation infrastructure designed for the needs of analog signals not digital broadband services. According to Jewell, the area's cableco, NTL, isn't keen on making the significant investment necessary to bring the cable network up to date.
The Register also reports that BT should be able to extend ADSL to roughly 75% of the MK population by July, although this still leaves 25% out in the cold.
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