Opinsy: Wifi should be free and available everywhere.

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Wifi for all and all for wifi!

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Emely Vermeiren says: Yes because it would be very usefull and easy. You can check your mails everywhere and do your work. No because their is a reason why you have to pay sometimes.. It costs money, somebody has to pay for it or it doesn't workes. If we all pay our parts, (almost) everyone would be happy.

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NabilAffan says: Imagine our life with Wifi everywhere!!! More battery life, free, semi-free internet, Faster and more VOIP option. Good example here are Taiwan, Singapore and could be Hong Kong

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Joel W R Baker says: No way jose! Water, yes. Wifi, no. For so many reasons. Public "conveniences" come higher up the list as do many other things. Intelligent conversation - well, that would be nice. The proportion of those in agreement with this ludicrous statement is quite shocking.

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leon says: I get a headache when I sit near a wifi transmitter, microwave radiation, even in small doses affects your DNA (even though it doesn't break down the cell wall) and probably adds to the feelings of unease and anxiety people have. Ubiquitous microwave radiation is just living in an EMF soup. The Supreme Court in Italy has ruled that the evidence shows phone radiation in high doses DOES cause illness. Having wifi everywhere is just the first step towards a wired population who are monitored and controlled 24/7. Wake up!

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South Park Fan says: That would be a dream come true. However due to economical barriers it would not be possible. I personally would love to see such a thing and would vote for any government promising to do that.

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tony.gong says: wifi must be free everywhere, I think so,Right now even the train stations in London are on a variety of networks.

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Emma says: Yes and no. Either way we'll have to pay for it, so forget the premise of it being free right away. If you have a need for WiFI like that then odds are you have a smartphone more than capable of connecting to the internet and paying a premium for the data on your phone package. I think advancing the capabilities of the mobile internet we already pay for would be a better plan overall.

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Kim Jackson says: Free WiFi powered by who? or what? I'm pretty sure that we would still be paying for it, but it would just be snook into our taxes or the prices of the consumables onsite of the hot spot. Which is more than unfair to the less tech savvy who don't have a need for or want to use the WiFi.

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mayman says: It's free in a lot of places already, but most free wifi is far worse than 3G, so I just disable wifi when I go out so as to stop my phone connecting to it. If user paid a nominal subscription fee for public wifi then it could be upgraded so as to practical be for the lesser number of users willing to pay.

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UKMikey says: Maybe it's impractical to pay for free wifi but it would be nice if all public places used the same network so if you had to pay you only had to pay once. Right now even the train stations in London are on a variety of networks.

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Chris Green says: Absolutely. Getting everyone connected will encourage all and shoudl be especially made available for every single school and hospital as a priority.

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richard buxton says: would be nice but someone has got to install and pay for it havent they? then again, it is free in a lot of places already so maybe it will be soon.

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Andrew Ward says: agreed, nothing is free these days excluding air. Someone somewhere would have to pay for the privilege of using this WiFi. But the question I ask you is who will pay for it?

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Alan Hope says: I don't see why people think wifi should be free, when nothing else is free. Well, air. For the time being. Do the supporters of this argument even know what wifi is, how it works, and what it takes to bring it to your phone or tablet? If you want all that for free, who do you think is going to pay for it?

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Andrew Ward says: I think that if we were to get 'free' WiFi across the country then A) It would require a lot of time to implement and get the resources together not to mention expensive B) they would have to be a reason behind it, such as companies attracting you with vouchers ect. and then you also have to look at the practicality of it, why install a WiFi network across the country (that basically has to be insecure other wise people wont use it) when they have, as serveral people have already pointed out, a mobile phone network that is currently been upgraded to 4G? Answer they wouldn't a nice as it would be, its just to inpractical.

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Haiku575 says: I agree wifi will soon be free to consumers, but that is because I believe oligopolistic markets such as cafes will (if they aren't already) start to offer free wifi as standard. I think other markets will follow suit in order to attract customers. For example, all other things being equal, you'd rather go to a bowling alley with free wifi than not

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BRYTER says: To say Wi-Fi should be free is too simplistic an argument. It's like saying water, electricty or petrol should be free. I think what people mean is 'I'd like it to be free'. That is very different from it shuld be free. It's a service like any other and with that should come charges for usage

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Philip Hales says: Citywide/Town should be free, I am sure it would help commerce. How often in a strange town have to tried to find a certain store? Free Wi-Fi would help, also they could offer downloadable vouchers to attract you to them.

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Laura Coles says: If WiFi was free EVERYWHERE would people still purchase Internet services for there home when they can simply use the connection from someone else? Unlikely. WiFi should be free... in most public places. With a few exceptions. IE. I'm pretty sure if WiFi was free across an entire airport rather than perhaps the Costa there , it might leave a bit of a dangerous gap for activities?

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Jay Rossiter says: And who pays for it? You have it free in town, but still pay indirectly with other products you buy. I do believe though that everyone should have access to internet wherever they live...

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Floober364 says: Wifi isn't free in most areas anyway, often times its in a cafe or restaurant or your internet provider gives you access to hotspots across the country (common in the UK). Still free wifi everywhere would be awesome and since you already pay for internet at home you should be able to just sign in with that.

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Troubleshotgun says: I agree with WiFi being free for all and available everywhere. I hate going to some place where wifi is non existent. I feel so alone and disconnected from the world.

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Chandler Lee says: 1. With time goes by, WiFi will be as common as electricity and gas. Because every work now and in the future will depend on Internet access. No one could live without Internet just like no one could live without electricity. 2. Notice that both gas and electricity need charges because of their costs of maintenance and construction, so does WiFi. 3. Free WiFi can serve as a benefit or attraction for customers, but requiring all WiFi is free is not realistic.

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Graham Burns says: I agree wtih @christophertrottier. I think it would be more frustrating to have a poor quality of wifi available everywhere than no no wifi at all. Especially as 3G is generally pretty good in most areas, there is no great need for wifi.

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Christopher Trottier says: WiFi has too many problems. For one, it's expensive to build infrastructure based on it. For second, there's other technologies that do they same but cheaper. Nokia Siemens has just done an LTE test that pushes speeds to 1.7Gbps. Traditional WiFi can't touch these speeds, nor does it have the same range as cell phone networks.

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Yarkın Ergin says: I agree with Rob Jenkins, water should be a priority but this opinion has nothing to do with that. It only says that wifi should be free and everyhere, it doesnt say these should be done before the water issue. So your argument is kind of ignoratio elenchi, its valid but it has no connection to the main idea.

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Ms_Communication says: Everyday, my smartphone picks up at least 20 different wi-fi networks. I get free wi-fi with my coffee, my fastfood, when I walk past a government funded library. I pay £20 per month at home for wi-fi and can access the 'net on my smartphone (for a substantial fee!). It's wi-fi overload. I've often thought that my neighbours and me should band together and share an access point. Surely there most be some way to ease the monetary burden on local governments to provide internet access to the public in these difficult times? We have too many avenues of internet access open to us.

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