Swindon - Wi Fi Town...

[Samdy Gray]

What jonny said. It was a joint venture. The council stumped up some of the start-up costs, the company the rest.

[Barry Scott]

Cool, more money to be spent on roundabouts and traffic lights if it's a success. Less money to be spent on roundabouts and traffic lights if it's a failure. Maybe SBC can make a mint and then spend some real money on the town for once.

[Power to people]

What jonny said. It was a joint venture. The council stumped up some of the start-up costs, the company the rest.

So if it fails the tax payer is down £4.5m and then the council will be bleating about how they have to cut costs and increase council tax due to losing that money, but isn't the point that they should have consulted taxpayers before using 'our' money.

Where has this money come from, is it being taken from areas that they are proposing cutting ?

If this project was that good why wasn't any multi-national's falling over themselves to get involved with it.

Have they given details on when they expect a return on the money, not as far as I'm aware, and what they have done to ofset the losses, I will give them credit if this takes off and earns a huge profit but at the moment I can't see it there is too much competition for broadband wifi access that bundles in other things like Sky for example to make it cheaper

[jonny72]

So if it fails the tax payer is down £4.5m and then the council will be bleating about how they have to cut costs and increase council tax due to losing that money, but isn't the point that they should have consulted taxpayers before using 'our' money.

Where are you getting your figures from? The only figure I've seen is a total investment of £1m, with it implied that SBC have coughed up a third of it. Though it might not even be that much as they're using SBC owned property for the base stations, which would normally cost a company a fair few quid to rent.

Everyone always goes on about Swindon being a shit hole and SBC being fucking useless, then they do something unique and forward thinking like this and there's still people moaning.

[Summer of Noughtie Nine]

Beat me to it bennett!!

I might be wrong but I think if Swindon became a city and wanted to become Swindon City then they would have to get the sunday league team to change their name as you can't have 2 clubs with the same name registered at the FA!

What about Ashford Town FC? One described as Middlesex and one as Kent.

[Batch]

I see that the official line is delays mean costs are increasing and they are now looking to phase this in over a larger time frame (up to a year). And also there are likely to be changes to the free model, moving from being time based to being data usage based.

Shame, looked good in theory, but I'm having my doubts we will ever see this finished.

[pauld]

Rikki Hunt in "delivery not up to promise" shock

[Cookie]

He's an ideas man, it's not his fault that the real world doesn't operate the same as the world inside his head does.

[chalkies_shorts]

He's an ideas man, it's not his fault that the real world doesn't operate the same as the world inside his head does.

Good point- maybe he needs a corporate lawyer to get the ideas out of his head to become reality. Maybe someone whose adversaries even admire him. Where is that twat now - the trail went cold after he got thrown out as a non exec director or Royal United hospital bath