Showing posts with label Network Access. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Network Access. Show all posts

Friday, December 31, 2010

In Italy, wifi is free

After months of promises, confirmations and denials, especially after five long years of endless waiting, the provisions introduced by the then interior minister, Beppe Pisanu, through which he had imposed an unnecessary and anachronistic requirement to identify, through card 'identity, how to connect to the internet in wifi in bars, restaurants and public houses have been repealed.

It took a few lines inserted in the CD Decree Milleproroghe to jump behind a standard that has been in the last five years, one of the many anomalies Italian and above all that has prevented the development and dissemination of public Internet connections, helping to increase the dramatic digital divide that plagues our country and relegates him to the role of bringing up the rear in every European ranking on the prevalence of broadband.