A while back there was much noise being made about Birmingham being the first city in the country with city-wide WiFi Internet access. This was be supplied by BT Openzone with free access to essential council services and entertainment guides being provided by Birmingham FIZ. In this last year I’ve been working in the city with my laptop and no permanent office and recently I succumbed to the iPhone which works much faster over WiFi, so I have first hand experience of what it’s like to be a mobile worker here. Added to this I was in Austin, Texas last week for the South By South West Interactive Festival, a tech-heavy event where constant access to the Internet was a necessity, where part of my remit was to see what lessons and knowledge I could bring back to Birmingham.
Continued on the Birmingham Post blog. Warning, It’s a long bastard…
I propose something much more radical… the ‘Internet Free Zone’.