(UK) Lampposts to provide location-based services?
From CNET News.com.
Last Mile Communications has ideas about a range of services it could provide from wireless access points mounted on lampposts throughout the UK. Such services include wireless broadband access, location services, emergency services, and information services utilising data stored locally in each lamppost. It costs around £500 to hook up each lamppost.
Last Mile’s plan doesn’t involve any sort of interaction with the telephone network. That could be a good thing, as they aren’t reliant on cooperation from telcos, but it also means that their business will have trouble selling its services once mobile phone location technologies and 3G data services become more widespread.