Computerworld: "BT Group PLC last week said it plans to install 4,000 public-access wireless LAN nodes designed to serve mobile enterprise users throughout the U.K.". This is fun. They'll drop WiFi (802.11b) access points in public places. It's a good thing - although I'm not convinced you can easily make money charging for WiFi in public places, and geographic coverage will be some way behind the patchy DSL availability. NTK points out "seems pretty darn ambitious - especially when you take into account that it's currently illegal... Odd isn't it, that BT are so keen on WiFi now they've dumped 3G onto their spin-off MMO2?"

What they should really do, of course, is use WiFi to rescue the railway system. Fit a public 802.11 base station into every railway carriage, and wire 'em to the backbone. Suddenly, travelling anywhere by train becomes so much more productive than driving.