Nintendo teams up with BT
WiFi has taken another step into the mainstream with shops across the UK getting hotspots provided byNintendo and BT Openzone.
Shops to get the wireless transmission systems include GAME, HMV, Toys R Us and a number of other independent retailers.
BT is carrying out the deployment in partnership with Nintendo, and will add to the 7,500 hotspots the games company already operates in the UK.
Nintendo wants to use the transmitters to allow game players to download samples to its handheld gaming devices.
Chris Bruce, BT's wireless broadband general manager says the deployment is proof of WiFi's move into the mainstream.
'We’ll really see Wi-Fi coming of age this year and this agreement is taking BT Openzone even further into the high street and retail parks by giving gamers access to Wi-Fi in an easy and accessible format at the point-of-purchase,' he said.
Rollout will start today and is due to be completed by this summer.
WiFi has taken another step into the mainstream with shops across the UK getting hotspots provided byNintendo and BT Openzone.
Shops to get the wireless transmission systems include GAME, HMV, Toys R Us and a number of other independent retailers.
BT is carrying out the deployment in partnership with Nintendo, and will add to the 7,500 hotspots the games company already operates in the UK.
Nintendo wants to use the transmitters to allow game players to download samples to its handheld gaming devices.
Chris Bruce, BT's wireless broadband general manager says the deployment is proof of WiFi's move into the mainstream.
'We’ll really see Wi-Fi coming of age this year and this agreement is taking BT Openzone even further into the high street and retail parks by giving gamers access to Wi-Fi in an easy and accessible format at the point-of-purchase,' he said.
Rollout will start today and is due to be completed by this summer.
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