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Westminster Launches UK's Largest Internet Kiosk Network
News Westminster City Council launched a network of 12 outdoor Internet kiosks today, as part of a growing scheme to close the digital divide in Britain. Westminster is one of the busiest areas of London, with an average daytime population of one...
[July 25, 2001, 17:30]
Westminster Businesses Get WiMax Broadband
News It is starting slowly, though — its first base station will be installed in Westminster next week, and it believes it will need just three base stations to serve businesses in the Westminster area. We guarantee to cover 95.8 percent of the...
[March 21, 2006, 13:55]
Westminster Gets All Meshed Up
News The long-awaited rollout of wireless connectivity across Westminster is to begin by the end of this year. Starting with a square mile across Soho and the West End, the entire City of Westminster will be connected by the end of 2008, a spokesperson...
[November 27, 2006, 15:21]
Westminster Council Bullish On Wi-Fi Expansion
News A high-speed wireless network being rolled out by Westminster City Council will revolutionise the delivery of public services to citizens and could easily be copied by other local authorities across the UK, according to those closely involved with...
[April 29, 2004, 16:05]
Westminster Council Widens Wi-Fi Network
News Westminster residents could soon get Wi-Fi access as part of Westminster City Council's plans to extend its wireless networking project. ZDNet UK reported in April 2004 that Westminster council was planning to extend its Wi-Fi network, after a...
[November 25, 2005, 13:45]
Westminster City Council To Save GBP35 Million (US$65.4 Million)
White Papers One of London's largest city councils, Westminster City Council governs more than 220,000 residents and 47,000 businesses that collectively generate 2.2% of the United Kingdom's GDP. Westminster is set to transform service delivery while saving an...
[March 7, 2006, 23:00]
Wi-Fi Means Cleaner Streets For Westminster
News Westminster City Council will be unwiring the Soho district of London in an attempt to cut costs and cut crime, it was announced on Monday. This is good news for the Westminster bean counters, but what about residents?
[March 9, 2004, 14:05]
Westminster Council Bullish On Wi-Fi Expansion
Talkback Just a thought about the hacking of these cctv wireless networks. I would of thought that surfing for free would not be the main reason for hacking them, but criminal ( terorrist ) groups wanting survalnce on targets or to protect their own...
[April 30, 2004, 9:37]
Westminster Council Bullish On Wi-Fi Expansion
Talkback I was under the impression that bobby's-on-the-beat were to have PDA's with video streaming capabilities. It seems (from this report) that they only get still images, thats a shame. I would like to see fuel-cell PDA's with WiMax capabilities - that...
[April 30, 2004, 0:03]
CityWest Homes Housing Officers Use Secure Mobile E-mail To Improve Efficiency
White Papers CityWest Homes (CWH) manages over 22,000 properties for Westminster City Council, through its 6 providers and 14 tenant management organisations. When the system is rolled out to as many as 120 housing officers across Westminster, it will allow...
[September 20, 2006, 0:00]
Friday
Blog Friday 25/04/2003News that Westminster Council is going to submerge Soho in a sea of 802.11b is quite a wake-up call to those who think that 3G phones will be forever safe from wireless networking, because the coverage will never be there.
[April 25, 2003, 16:16]
Euro Telco Super-regulator Plan Savaged
News The European Commission's proposal for a pan-European telecommunications super-regulator was widely derided at a major seminar in Westminster on Thursday. Delegates at the Westminster eForum consultation seminar on the EU telecommunications review...
[October 20, 2006, 17:00]
Big Brother?
Talkback Fortunately, I do not live in London and nor will I ever do so with the sort of surveillance levels that Westminster City Council is proposing. It is about time that protest was made against this practice by councils such as Westminster, before...
[September 17, 2007, 9:21]
Wi-Fi CCTV Cracks Down On Rogue Parking
News London's City of Westminster is to crack down on rogue drivers by using its Wi-Fi-based CCTV network. Westminster City Council is busy installing networked security cameras that can recognise parking permits and the number plates of offending...
[September 11, 2007, 12:31]
BT To Create Wireless Cities
News The cities taking part so far are Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool and Westminster. Cardiff and Westminster represent extensions of the scheme, as smaller Wi-Fi networks already exist in both places.
[May 17, 2006, 13:00]
UK Still Lags In Broadband Extensiveness
News A new report by research group Analysys has found that the UK now boasts the third most competitive broadband market of all the G7 industrialised nations, e-commerce minister Stephen Timms told the Westminster Media Forum on Tuesday.
[May 21, 2003, 16:58]
Governments Failed To Foresee IT Skills Gap
News I'm not sure the government has been caught out, but one thing we have let slip by is: by concentrating on the change in the structure of employment and the decline in mainstream manufacturing, we've not been concerned with people at other [skills...
[October 26, 2007, 17:00]
ISPs, Telcos And Police Voice Fears Over Data Retention Cost
News Deleted'," said Internet expert Clive Feather, speaking at the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) Annual Parliamentary Advisory Forum in Westminster. The Earl of Erroll, President of the E-business Regulatory Alliance, an organisation...
[January 13, 2006, 8:50]
Universities Highlight IT Forensics Boom
News Dr J Philip Evans, who runs the centre for research into information technology security at the University of Westminster, said he also believes that forensics is an "in" subject. At the University of Westminster, students also take week-long...
[April 24, 2007, 17:08]
Weblogs Help Create A Political Hot Spot
News This is the first time there has been a public debate about blogging in any national parliament and the first time there has been a publicly available Wi-Fi network in, as far as I know, in any national parliament, but certainly the first time in...
[July 11, 2003, 12:10]
