{"id":18537,"date":"2015-10-19T07:47:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T14:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/uk-town-residents-to-enjoy-wifi-connected-pavement"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:21:09","slug":"uk-town-residents-to-enjoy-wifi-connected-pavement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/uk-town-residents-to-enjoy-wifi-connected-pavement","title":{"rendered":"UK town residents to enjoy WiFi connected pavement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uk-town-residents-to-enjoy-wifi-connected-pavement.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UK pedestrians in Chesham will experience a first when they stroll around. Virgin Media is behind the initiative of a Smart WiFi Pavement, to provide people with Wi-Fi access. Residents will be able to \u201cstreetsurf,\u201d according to the news release. Virgin Media is a provider of all four broadband, TV, mobile phone and home phone services in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The company is out to make a name in improving out-of-home connectivity. The Virgin Media news release said, \u201cChiltern District Council and Virgin Media have joined forces to blanket Chesham\u2019s high street with superfast WiFi. The unlimited WiFi service is available to residents, businesses and visitors passing through the center of Chesham; the service even covers parts of Lowndes Park \u2013 Chesham\u2019s 36 acre park space.\u201d The pilot is available to all the 21,000 residents and businesses of Chesham.<\/p>\n<p>Speeds of up to 166Mbps are highlighted; the number is seven times the average UK broadband speed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-10-uk-town-residents-wifi-pavement.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK pedestrians in Chesham will experience a first when they stroll around. Virgin Media is behind the initiative of a Smart WiFi Pavement, to provide people with Wi-Fi access. Residents will be able to \u201cstreetsurf,\u201d according to the news release. Virgin Media is a provider of all four broadband, TV, mobile phone and home phone [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,418,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-internet","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69347,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18537\/revisions\/69347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}