Nintendo Wifi for the City of London
by Conrad Quilty-Harper 
{ Feb 24th 2006 at 7:30PM }
The City of London Corporation has announced that the City
is to benefit from complete Wifi coverage. The City (which covers about one square mile) is working in partnership with
Wifi company The Cloud to implement the scheme over the next few months.The observant British Gaming Blog noticed that Nintendo partners with The Cloud to provide free Wifi to owners of the Nintendo DS. So while on the surface this plan may look like a great way to give workers easy access to the Internet, it's actually the first step in Nintendo's plan for worldwide domination. The next step? Free Wifi for Downing Street.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Superzapper2000 @ Feb 24th 2006 8:27PM
Free is good .Free will sell games and the consoles to play the games on.
Airen @ Feb 24th 2006 9:01PM
Genius.
DS master @ Feb 24th 2006 9:53PM
Nintendo Wifi slogan:
Is Good to play Together, but it's Better to Play Together for Free!
The_Predator @ Feb 24th 2006 9:55PM
FINALY! Thank the Lord and the heavens! My air to be buzzing with little magic Wi-Fi buzzy things!
PS: Downing Street is in London, so it will already be covered with this, non?
The_Predator @ Feb 24th 2006 10:03PM
Waaaaaait a minute, I just realised, when you say, the city of London, you mean, The City Of London. That little bit over there where all the suits converge.
Oh.
Well.
Time to get back to petitioning Livingston for City-wide cover.
Kye @ Feb 24th 2006 11:34PM
Errr... Nintendo
Forgeting that life exists outside of London?
What happens Gangchester, I mean Manchester, Birmingham, Cardif, Leeds, Leister, Bristol etc etc etc?
Or am I going to have to drive for 2 hours everyting I want to pwn someone online?
:(
Jared @ Feb 25th 2006 2:08AM
Come on Nintendo! Australia GOGOGO! *Pushes Iwata onto Australia*
Kasumi-Astra @ Feb 25th 2006 7:25AM
It's not Nintendo that is setting up the infrastrucutre ;) They're just partnering with a company that is doing it anyway.
When it gets set up, I'll have to see if I can connect to World of Warcraft using my laptop. Now, that would be awesome- providing they won't charge for access. Which they surely will.
It's a shame that most wi-fi hotspots charge for the privilage. The Showroom Cafe in Sheffield expects a monthly subscription for the access to their wi-fi. The problem is that I simply don't have the money to pay a for a subscription to be able to take my laptop to just one place. GNER trains charges for just three hours' use (unless you're riding in first class of course). It'd be nice to be able to take my laptop (or, indeed my DS) out and be able to use wi-fi without companies' synical opinion that I'll pay to use my wi-fi enabled products at every spot that I occasionally visit.
Jon @ Feb 25th 2006 8:29AM
Old news. Nintendo teaming up with The Cloud was announced way back when UK's NiFi was announced.
Steve @ Mar 1st 2006 7:55AM
As a number of people have said this is oldish news. TheCloud are just covering the "city" which is the financial district not the whole city. TheCloud have a ongoing relationship with Nintendo so yes this will be available. But it is certainly not likely to be free. WiFi access in UK is generally at present a rip offa as the market is believed to be wwith businessmen
However I believe it is going to be gamers and other consumers that push the market. The first organisation to provide easy cheap (maybe free) access are going to do very well