{"id":569759,"date":"2010-05-18T20:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=158789"},"modified":"2010-05-18T20:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T00:00:21","slug":"london-planning-on-citywide-wifi-before-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569759","title":{"rendered":"London planning on citywide wifi before Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/wifi-london.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wifi-london\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-158799\" \/>Mayor of London and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topgear.com\/uk\/videos\/boris-johnson\">Top Gear slowpoke<\/a> Boris Johnson is trying to make London one of the most wired cities, just in time for the Olympics. During a recent conference, Johnson announced a plan to install wifi hotspots in &#8220;every lampost and bus stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The project, called &#8220;Wireless London&#8221; is part of Johnson&#8217;s attempt to make London the technological center of the world. It makes sense to do this, particularly with the 2012 Olympics coming and giving London a chance to really show off how progressive they are. Currently, there&#8217;s no word on how fast the connection will be, or how much it will cost to use. It is an idea who&#8217;s time has come, and I hope that there are more cities that run with the same idea.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/196583\/London_to_Get_Full_Wifi_Coverage_by_2012_Olympics.html\">PC World<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/OCjPjdvrQmTH8DpwVU213lF_nWA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/OCjPjdvrQmTH8DpwVU213lF_nWA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/OCjPjdvrQmTH8DpwVU213lF_nWA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/OCjPjdvrQmTH8DpwVU213lF_nWA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=PyWsIS1dm2A:-8VtgbU_--o:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=PyWsIS1dm2A:-8VtgbU_--o:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=PyWsIS1dm2A:-8VtgbU_--o:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=PyWsIS1dm2A:-8VtgbU_--o:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=PyWsIS1dm2A:-8VtgbU_--o:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor of London and Top Gear slowpoke Boris Johnson is trying to make London one of the most wired cities, just in time for the Olympics. During a recent conference, Johnson announced a plan to install wifi hotspots in &#8220;every lampost and bus stop.&#8221; The project, called &#8220;Wireless London&#8221; is part of Johnson&#8217;s attempt to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":968,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/968"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}