Not so much a 'hotspot', as a blanket of general heat, O2 is intending to provide a technology and service to "enable a seamless customer experience", which will "at least double the number of premium hotspots currently offered by BT Openzone and The Cloud combined by 2013".
Bold claims, and to make such a service "free to customers" too, just why are they doing it?
Well, they worded it well, the service may be free "to customers", but you can rest assured they will be getting their pay cheques from the ad companies. The other benefit will be ease on existing 3G, and future 4G networks.
It's amusing to think, that since acquiring 3G licenses from HM Government for £22.5bn, our network operators have done nothing but throttle our mobile data usage, charging extortionate rates, 1GB capped "Unlimited" packages, and so on.
Now O2 is launching a WiFi service based around public hotspots daisy-chained together in a complex repeater type arrangement, in order to ease their network that cost so much to buy in the first place.
