El Reg reports:
The European Parliament, Council, and Commission have all decided that the in-El Reg's-view-inexplicable WiFi4EU project is a fine idea worthy of €120m to ensure "every European village and every city with free wireless internet access around the main centres of public life by 2020".
The agreement between the Parliament, Council, and Commission will see "6,000 to 8,000 municipalities" offered the chance to participate in a "simple and non-bureaucratic process" that will see them handed the cash needed to buy, install, and maintain WiFi kit for three years. Cities and towns have to pay for internet services themselves.
The initial factsheet for the project said it would bring WiFi to "parks, squares, libraries, public buildings to benefit citizens and institutions with a public mission".
That language is absent from the canned statement about the funding for the project. But we do get the caveat that grants under the scheme will only be made in "areas where a similar public or private offer does not yet exist".
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @05:46AM (2 children)
Internet access, yep, that's free. I'm "phreaking" AT&T to get it.
No it surely did not, because I didn't pay. I think I'll just neglect to renew it. That's the way you do it! Money for nothing and data for free!
One of many ways internet access is free. If not AT&T giving me free data I could piggyback on one of those Comcast free wifi hotspots which are everywhere.
Wow with all this free data I can watch the circus or whatever is on TV tonight. Doctor Who chats with Master Missy about an Earth invasion by alien monks from space. Would not pay to see that, but hey, it's free.
I see your free circus, but where's my free bread? Gimme basic income, and a particle accelerator and a 3D printer and a pony. Now!
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday June 04 2017, @06:12AM (1 child)
Lucky you, some of us choose to pay ISPs for the privilege of shitposting on Soylentnews.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @06:19AM
But why? When you can shitpost from any "parks, squares, libraries, public buildings" ?
Add to that any residential area served by Comcast has abundant xfinitywifi free for shitposting.