Free wifi is available at Coronation Park in Ormskirk, Lancashire and at various locations in Liverpool. Certainly in the park the wifi connection is used by students who are on limited budgets and wish to look up information or make free IP phone calls. The connection is also used by many others such as tourists who do not particularly want to be armed with hundreds of leaflets. Wireless devices are entering the marketplace all the time and the costs of these devices will reduce over time as more wireless networks are put into place. This is obvious if wifi is free to access.
Amanda Shaw - www.letsgowifi.co.uk

Second hand laptops should be cheap if you can buy a new laptop for 333Euro

Anyone else see the flaw in this logic...

Free Wifi in public areas so the poor can get online...

So the poor can use the intarweb, assuming they're not too poor to own a wifi enabled mobile device, like a laptop, iPhone, iPod Touch... None of which I imagine comes high on the list of must-haves for the poor!

I guess they could get lucky and mug someone with an N95 or iPhone and get some free usage until the battery runs flat.

Or is Mr Liberal nice idea, haven't really thought it through though, going to give everyone a free Eee? If so I'll put on my oldest jeans (oh, already have) and be standing outside his house with my arms out stretched. :-)

Personally I'd love to see our sole permitted anti-war protester camped in Parliament Square being able to provide a real time blog.