£32 million will be spent to get Cardiff ‘super connected’, hoping to improve internet speed and availability across the city by 2015.
Along with increased connection speed, Wireless providers will be able to install their wireless equipment on Council street furniture (particularly lamp posts) for a small rental fee. Wi-fi in town will also be free for half an hour a day or free at all times on Cardiff Council and Cardiff tourism sites.
£16 million will come from ‘private sector investment’, £12 million from the UK government’s Urban Broadband fund and £4 million from Cardiff Council to improve Wi-fi in schools.
In the hope that the UK will become the best connected country in Europe the government is investing £114 million in total.