Edinburgh is due to become the first city to offer a free Wi-Fi service on all of its buses and trams, after the installation is completed later in 2014.
The aim of the project is to improve the service for residents and tourists alike, providing them with better connectivity whilst out and about.
The capital’s Wi-Fi project will see mobile routers installed on all of its 713 buses and its 27 new trams, due to be up and running in May.
This is not the first step that Scotland has taken to improve connectivity on its transport links, according to techweekeurope.co.uk. The Scottish government paid £2 million to ScotRail to fund the installation of free Wi-Fi on it express trains.
Graham Birse, director of the Edinburgh Institute at Edinburgh Napier University, told scotsman.com that these improvements to the transport links in the capital may not sound like much, but it will go some way to improving visitors’ experience – which should in turn benefit businesses.
Mr Birse said: “Until fairly recently, internet access on the move was limited to those with the latest smartphones but, as we saw at Christmas, the top purchase was tablet computers and we have to keep up with the expectation that users will be able to log on wherever they go.”
