Wireless Broadband and Public Services

Bringing the benefits of wireless broadband

By exploiting affordable and reliable mobile broadband services, public service organisations can save money. Access to the Internet for citizens creates the ability to provide public services directly on-line thereby reducing the cost of service delivery from more than £10 for a face to face transaction to less than 10 pence per on-line transaction, while also improving the speed of the transaction to the citizen.

Getting digitally and socially excluded people online is a complex undertaking with different challenges for different disadvantaged groups, however affordable connectivity is a common essential component for all. placing commercially attractive clients ahead of those that are socially and digitally excluded creates a 'media rich/poor divide. There is a real risk that if we do not act now then the low/no users iwill become further excluded. Using 4G networks we can create economically sustainable wireless services for individual housing developments in areas without fixed line services enabling connectivity to be provided to those who need it most.