British Parliament members demand Wi-Fi access
Wireless Internet access should be installed in parts of the Houses of Parliament to give its members access to information on the move.
So says a report by the U.K. House of Commons Administration Committee, calling for secure wireless access after it found that some new members of Parliament struggled to work before they were given office space.
“We recommend that wireless Internet access should be provided in those areas likely to be of most use to members,” the report said. “We appreciate the security and viability issues around wireless Internet access but believe that it should be possible to overcome these difficulties.”
The report examines how the House of Commons services responded to the influx of 123 new Parliament members following last year’s election.
And while members can have calls forwarded from their parliamentary phone number to a mobile phone, the report said wireless Internet access is lacking: “The Parliamentary Data and Video Network is a wires-only network, to which only computers matching a centrally specified standard can be connected.”
Source: ZDNet.
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