MONK
20th April 2002, 15:50
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,685818,00.html
What started less than two years ago as the dream of a handful of techies now has real momentum. Free networking groups have sprung up across the UK, in London, Reading, Luton, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Brighton and Sheffield to name a few. Consume.net, the de facto hub for the UK's disparate groups, maintains a searchable database of UK public access points, or nodes. There are 56 nodes in operation across the country, with 80 in testing and a further 431 proposed.
What started less than two years ago as the dream of a handful of techies now has real momentum. Free networking groups have sprung up across the UK, in London, Reading, Luton, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Brighton and Sheffield to name a few. Consume.net, the de facto hub for the UK's disparate groups, maintains a searchable database of UK public access points, or nodes. There are 56 nodes in operation across the country, with 80 in testing and a further 431 proposed.