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Spain enlists to the WiFi
According to it is come def the data facilitated by the Wireless Observatory de the Gowex Group, at the moment in Spain is impelling de significant form the WiFi sector. Gowex explains that the increase de radio networks, deprived, public and commercial, is taking place de quantitative form, like the one de hotspot and devices and gadgets that supports to the formats and WiFi standards, as de qualitative form.
According to the made study the Wireless Observatory de the Gowex Group in July already had in Spain more than 200 wireless municipalities, and during the past year, Spain counted with more than eleven million users de the WiFi networks. According to the National Institute de Statistic, in a published study the 31 de October de the 2008, 51% de the Spanish homes have access to Internet, having grown this number in more de million connections in the last twelve months. With respect to the users de the Network, these already they surpass 17 million, which in the last supposes an increase de the 11% de the total number de internauts year.
The Wireless Observatory de the Gowex Group emphasizes the necessity de the citizens to be always connected at any time and place and observes the potential de use de the services associated to these networks multiplies de well-known form and the daily interactions are facilitated by direct, ubiquitous and customized connections. Gowex explains that the sites in Spain that even count on radio network and in places outdoors, like beaches are more and more numerous, already can be acceded to the network.
The splendid study made by the Wireless Observatory de the Gowex Group puts like example de the development de the wireless technology in Spain a:
- Universities: the initiative Campus in Network de the Ministry de Industry, Tourism and Commerce, next to the Ministry de Education and Science has been able to give wireless cover to the 44 Spanish public universities, with a signal that reachs more than 1.300.000 students, 90,000 prdeessors and 40,000 workers.
- Hospitals: Thanks to the WiFi networks, the managements in the health centers are faster and effective. For this reason, to the pioneering initiative de the Hospital de They are Llàtzer in Majorca to install wireless, have followed him some like the Hospital de La Paz, the 12 de October, the one de the Vall dŽHebron or the Hospital de Viladecans. The last one in being united to this initiative is the New Hospital Hortega River de Valladolid; example de innovation, domótica and wireless connections, and in which the managements in paper will be merely testimonial.
- Commercial Centers: The proliferation de interactive screens that support to formats de marketing and publicity in the commercial centers, together with the implementation de networks WiFi and Bluetooth, allows to create new systems de financing and connection in great points de consumption. The users can use their WiFi devices, for example, in the commercial centers de Ballena and Tamarana in Las Palmas, the one de the Roundhouses in Fuerteventura, the Biosphere Place in Lanzarote or the tinerfeños centers de Meridian and Santa Cruz Añaza. In the Community de Madrid, the great WiFi surfaces are several, like Fashion Shopping, Full moon, Moral Green or Great Alcala.
- Public Transport, by earth, sea and air: According to the I Technological Strategic Plan 2008-2011 de the EMT, Madrid it will be pilot city in the installation de systems de wireless access to gratuitous Internet in the public transport: concretely, the citizens will be able to connect themselves through the buses. The city de Malaga, pioneer in wireless services, follows this tendency and also it will incorporate the WiFi in his line de urban buses. In addition, the line de interurban buses that also unites Corunna and Ferrol puts at the disposal de its usuary radio networks de access to Internet. The deprived initiative, on the other hand, implements the improvement de services to the travellers and companies as de transport as ALSA count on network WiFi in their Supra range since the end de the 2007.
The Wireless Observatory de the Gowex Group also indicates that even at the airplane it has arrived or the American Wireless technology and airline companies, for example Virgin or American Airlines, allows the viejeros to accede to Internet in trascurso de the flight when a year ago the own companies showed that the access to the network in the airplanes was something that was in study and therefore it was only a possibility. Also on the high seas the development de the Wifi has been enormous and those that want to enjoy their vacations in the ship Queen Mary 2 are going to be able to sail in Internet from their own staterooms.
Other sites, to the study realized by Wireless Observatory de the Gowex Group make mention, and where the development de the Wireless technology has experimented a considerable speed is:
- Tourist Locations: Places de tourist high level as the rural houses or the beaches are today WiFi points. The beach de Castelldefells was one de first in defering this service to its visitors, but or some like the one de Calvià, Alcudia have been united him and Are Servera in Majorca, the one de Gandía in Valencia or the visited beach de the Shell in San Sebastián. In addition, the sector de the hotel trade is one de which, quantitatively, the number de radio networks is increased more express, like the chain de Sheraton hotels, that defers gratuitous WiFi points in all the lobbies.
- Financial Services: Boxes and banks integrate new wireless communications networks in their branches. For example, DOG (Savings bank de Navarre) already defers to its clients a WiFi space in which they can be connected to the network in many de his defices.
The Wireless Observatory de the Gowex Group concludes in its study that to day de today the usuary one demands the necessity to anywhere accede to the network or place and that this demand already comprises de the normal life de the citizens.
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