| Links - WISPS - useful list of wireless "rural broadband" providers |
| By Guy Kewney Posted on 21/10/2003 at 11:55 |
| At ADSL Guide, wireless broadband forms a significant thread for general discussion, and the site has now set up a "live" page to be updated showing who, in the UK, is a WISP. |
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The WISP (wireless ISP) list is here, and the list as of this month (October 2003) reads: 1st Broadband, Penwith in Cornwall Accelerate Broadband, Loanhead, Bilston Glen and Pentlandfield Air-Band, Upton Snodsbury, Crowle, Hanley Swan, Upton upon Severn. Buckfastleigh, Devon Better Broadband for Britain, Association of Broadband Communities involved in building their own community broadband networks Country Broadband, Burbage in Wiltshire, with triggers for other areas. Community Mesh, Tunbridge Wells, Buxted, Robertsbridge and Benenden DevilsDyke.net, Poynings, Fulking, Edburton, Henfield, and Cowfold in the South Downs area. EdenFaster, Eden Valley, Cumbria EHotSpots, Bridlington and Stamford Essex Broadband, Basildon FDM Broadband, Hungerford, Lambourn, Kintbury, Aldbourne Highnam Broadband, Gloucestershire Hi Wide, Scottish Highlands, rollout for 2004 IAP.UK.NET, Portishead and Pill area of North Somerset Kent Broadband, Ashford Ledbury Broadband, Herefordshire Looseconnection, four free Wi-Fi hotspots in Brighton GXNetworks, Liberty, Tele2, Basingstoke, Guildford, Crystal Palace, Slough, Bradford, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Sleaford, Coventry, Leicester and Uxbridge LTT Wireless Broadband, EdenBridge, West Kent and East Sussex Mesh Broadband Broadband, Chafford Hundred, Hullbridge, Shoebury, Great Wakering, Burnt Mills Estate North Norfolk BB, Sheringham, Cromer and Holt Pipemedia AirDSL, Barlestone, Carlton, Far Coton, Market Bosworth Rabbit, The Remote Area Broadband Inclusion Trial Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Borders rural broadband Shere Broadband, Farley Green, Peaslake, Shere in Surrey Hills Skysurf UK, currently Witham St Hughes, Thorpe On The Hill, near Lincoln UK Broadband, company providing wireless to business parks. UK Wireless, covers Preston, and the surrounding area. West Haddon, West Haddon and Winwick in rural Northamptonshire wrbb.net, Bingham, Bottesford, Bourne, Elton, Scalford, South Witham, Stamford, and Uppingham The site provides complete URL links for most of these. Comments? Feedback? Call me on +44 20 8809 0492 in the UK - or discuss things here |