Welcome to Wireless Oxford

Internet watchers amongst you will have seen other cities, in Britain and abroad, getting geared up with various levels of wireless internet connections. Most of these concentrate on a small area of the urban centre, or have attracted large sums of public money to set up.

We believe that Oxford, a global centre of innovation and learning, needs to be at the forefront of these developments. But we want to go further. Basing our ideas on the model of "Wireless Philadelphia" in the United States, we believe that creating an infrastructure that all residents, workers and visitors can access wherever they are throughout the whole of the city, is essential to enable us all to participate in the connectivity revolution that these new technologies are going to bring.

High speed, ubiquitous internet and telecommunications access has the potential to transform the way we live, work, learn and shop. Ensuring the widest possible access to this technology may be as key to the wellbeing of citizens of the twenty-first century as quality roads, sewers, water and electricity supplies were to the nineteenth and twentieth.