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Aug 8, 2006
The Norfolk County Council has commenced
the Norfolk Open Link project, a £1.1 million, two-year pilot project that
provides free Internet access to public sector employees, the business
community and the general public. The project, which will run from August 2006
to April 2008, has been developed to allow Norfolk County Council evaluate the
impact of mobile technology and is aimed at encouraging economic development in
Norfolk and the delivery of public sector services throughout the region.
The project allows anyone with a wireless
enabled laptop, PDA or Internet mobile phone to access and use the network free
of charge. The network covers a large area of Norwich
city center as well as key sites, including the University
of East Anglia, NorwichScience Park,
Broadland BusinessPark and the Norfolk
and Norwich Hospital.
Later this year, another 20+ rural
locations in the South Norfolk district will be added to the network, making
this project the first in the UK
to include both rural and urban locations.
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