They built it.

Covered all of the city centre and out as far east as Thorpe St Andrew.

Was a network of wi-fi points, built as a trial. Trial ended. Switched off.

Posted By: Johnny Comecardiff on November 18th 2009 at 10:09:34

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FAO iFooners (General Chat) - duke of york, Nov 18, 09:37:53
- I've always had the same problem (General Chat) - scruffy, Nov 18, 10:39:03
- Nope never had any problems at FCR. Patchy 3G reception from the Concrete though. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 18, 09:50:42
  - Do you check scores during the game? (General Chat) - duke of york, Nov 18, 09:51:16
    - Yeah, I ask Jeff. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 18, 09:53:32
      - See, on Saturday, I simply couldn't get Jeff to load (General Chat) - duke of york, Nov 18, 09:56:00
        
        Since I've had my 3G ifoon, always in the Jarrold. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 18, 09:57:46
        
        Fogey stand - less iFooners clogging it up probably (General Chat) - duke of york, Nov 18, 10:00:15
        
        ask the club if you can borrow their network for the match (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 18, 10:01:16
        
        sounds like AB has a more gentle touch (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 18, 09:56:40
    - the scoreboard at half time (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 18, 09:52:31
- 50-50 for me sometimes it works sometimes it takes 10 mins to load a page (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Nov 18, 09:41:43
  - Thinking about sticking ?5 in my old LG (General Chat) - duke of york, Nov 18, 09:43:25
    - Apparently the iphone has a 40% dropped call rate too, so the amount of calls we receive (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Nov 18, 09:47:32
      - Can't say as I've ever had a dropped call in 18 months of ifoon use. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 18, 09:51:50
        
        But you wouldn't know, most will probably just dial again and not mention it (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Nov 18, 09:58:20
        
        How would you know if they didn't get through? (n/m) (General Chat) - duke of york, Nov 18, 09:56:13
        
        Well, that's a good point. But I haven't had people telling me they couldn't get hold of (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 18, 10:00:57
      - So we're agreed, unless you're in a free WiFi area (General Chat) - duke of york, Nov 18, 09:48:45
        
        Wasn't there talk about Norwich becoming a wifi city (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 18, 09:49:45
        
        They built it. (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Nov 18, 10:09:34
        
        really? (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 18, 10:10:14
        
        Council funded trial (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Nov 18, 10:12:01
        
        How could you monetise it? It was meant to be free (General Chat) - duke of york, Nov 18, 10:16:07
        
        Advertising. (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Nov 18, 10:20:17
        
        Ah, yes (n/m) (General Chat) - duke of york, Nov 18, 10:22:52
        
        get on it dukey - with your contacts it should be easy! (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Nov 18, 10:17:35
        
        I might just move to Swindon (n/m) (General Chat) - duke of york, Nov 18, 10:19:48
        
        well you'll be able to catch up on the Norwich results easily (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 18, 10:20:44
        
        Yes - world class wifi for NFNs (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 18, 10:19:48
        
        Exactly - how can we be world class without (General Chat) - duke of york, Nov 18, 10:23:34
        
        or perhaps do an ifoon app (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 18, 10:25:57
        
        They do a wireless results service already. (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Nov 18, 10:25:25
        
        Should tannoy be Tannoy? (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Nov 18, 10:25:53
        
        I think so (General Chat) - duke of york, Nov 18, 10:28:23
        
        so what you really need is a cure for OCD (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 18, 10:34:13
        
        I've given up on that (General Chat) - duke of york, Nov 18, 10:37:07
        
        I think there was - but doubt it would stretch to CR... (General Chat) - duke of york, Nov 18, 09:50:38
        
        for me, CR is the centre... (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 18, 09:51:39
      - I'm just having second thoughts about my switch (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 18, 09:48:34
        
        To be fair, web access on 3G is usually OK (General Chat) - duke of york, Nov 18, 09:50:02
        
        O2 is builting 1,500 new network sites in the UK in 2010 (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 18, 09:54:57
        
        that will be building I guess (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 18, 09:55:20
        
        Ask 'em if they need towers, (General Chat) - mike_the_sphinx, Nov 18, 11:45:13

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