Free Community-based WiFi from Freerunner
Freerunner, a telecommunication firm fronted by ‘The Cloud’ fame, Owen Geddes, has announced that it was planning to set up free WiFi hotspots at community-based locations. It has also revealed its plans to introduce WiFi costing below standard price, to commercial locations with a view to bring enhanced wireless broadband coverage to the remote places.
The company is planning to offer a fund to fifty free-to-use WiFi access points in local communities across Britain, initially. The residents can apply for a WiFi connection under the company’s new scheme, before September 25. It is expected that the most successful applicants would suggest access points that are easily accessible to the residents of the locality.
Apart from this, Freerunner is also working to provide five hundred charity locations in the United Kingdom with free WiFi. For materializing this, the company is reportedly partnering with Just Giving.com, a web-based charity. Meanwhile, the company will see that a notification is issued to all those whose applications for Wifi access points are approved by October 1 2009. The approved names will also appear on the firm’s website.
Owen Geddes, the CEO of Freerunner, said on the scheme that for being able to function in today’s society equally, people required internet access, and they were largely deprived of this most basic right. He suggested that the new scheme of Freerunner could serve to fulfill the 2Mbps broadband for all proposal of the government.
Geddes also claimed that he had a team on stand-by, which could install fifty WiFi hotspots across the country initially, regardless of the locations, besides working relentlessly to figure out commercial sponsors for locations in the future.
