Luxembourg is a Hotcity
2 July 2008 | Published in Internet, Luxembourg | 2 Comments
Luxembourg City has started the deployment of a mesh WIFI network named HOTCITY. It’s free, as in “free beer”. It’s rather fast, too. They are deploying access points on signposts, traffic lights, etc.
As always, good intentions are somewhat countered by real life conditions. You have the access, but where can you actually sit with your laptop ? Certainly not on the sidewalks at the Luxembourg station plaza. They are overcrowded by commuters waiting for the bus. In the train station itself, perhaps ? This time the HOTCITY signal is disturbed by the P&T Wifi installed in the station itself, and this one is not free.
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22 July 2008 at 14:17 (#)
Seems ou dont have all the details.
1st hotcity provide a mobile version of its services dedicated to iphones, smartphones and PDAs. so you dont need to find a place to sit with your laptop.
2nd there is no perturbation with P&T hotspot since P&T is part of the project and put its deployed hotspots at the rail station into the hotcity infrastructure. and of course they remain free.
22 July 2008 at 18:58 (#)
Yes, you are correct, there is also a mobile version for PDA and smartphones. This works … if you a a wifi enabled PDA of course.
But since there is also a full screen version of the login page, I guess the goal is to also provide connectivity for laptops. Don’t get me wrong. I do not expect the city council to provide chairs and power plugs next to the hotspots. I just point out that political projects often forget the contingencies of real life.
Regarding the P&T hotspot in the railway station lobby, I confirm it advertises only the paying “PT Hotspot” and not the HOTCITY SSID.