London holds onto world Wi-Fi crown
London has been named as the world's number one Wi-Fi internet destination for both corporate and leisure users.
The capital beat off stiff competition from the likes of New York and Tokyo to come top of a new chart compiled by iPass, largely due to the high levels of roll-out of new 3G technology.
According to the data compiled to come up with the rankings, Londoners connect to wireless broadband for an average of 72 minutes per session, while overall use over the second half of 2007 was up by 150 per cent in comparison to the same period of 2006.
Overall the UK ranked second in the world's biggest users of Wi-Fi, second only to the United States, with Germany finishing in third place and Switzerland and the Netherlands taking the fourth and fifth spots respectively.
Alongside the increase of average connection speeds from 150 Mb to 200 Mb, one other factor behind London's world-beating embrace of the new technology has been its roll-out in public places such as railway stations and airports, most notably Heathrow, where 41,000 sessions were recorded over the final six months of last year.
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