Public wireless internet access for free is available across eight buildings in west London. Free Wi-Fi is accessible in five of the Brent Libraries. In Westminster, both the National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery offer it. London’s National History Museum found in south Kensington also offers a hotspot for free. Other signature buildings in London that offer free Wifi for internet access, include all three museums of University of London, the British museum in Holborn and further away in Coindale, the Royal Air Force museum.
The Superconnected Citie,s a government initiative programme, has installed free public Wi-Fi in over a thousand buildings in Britain. The programme has also worked to install WiFi on hundreds of trains and buses in 9 cities, namely, Newport, Cardiff, Edinburgh, York, Salford, Manchester, Oxford, Bradford and Leeds. The government says they have found 3 million unique users accessing the service regularly and people use the free Wi-Fi service to browse the web, use their email accounts, check on the weather and use social media, on a daily basis.
