ATM Cash Machines Become Wi-Fi Hotspots
ATM Cash Machines Become Wi-Fi Hotspots
24th June , 2009
UK : Cashbox is enabling all of its ATM sites to become Wi-Fi hotspots from today, in a move that will allow users to surf, work, game or make cheaper VoIP calls with any wireless-enabled device using BT Openzone.
As a result of a new five-year deal between Cashbox and BT, the high speed wireless broadband service will initially be available in 10 of Cashbox's client locations, of which there are more than 2,500 across the UK, including Tiger Tiger sites in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Cardiff, and Digress, The Wall, Agenda, Abacus, Livery and Alibi bar restaurants in the City of London.
This is good news for the 4.8 million BT broadband customers with inclusive Wi-Fi minutes, plus O2 iPhone users with access to more than 3,000 BT Openzone hotspots included in their contracts. Customers from iPass, Boingo and other BT Openzone roaming partners will also be able to use the service.
Ciaran Morton, CEO of Cashbox, commented "As a customer focussed business, we are continually looking for ways to extend our service offering, and with exciting initiatives such as this we are providing our customers with additional opportunities to utilise the ATM machines. May was an all time record monthfor transaction levels as people are finding cash preferable to credit in the current economic climate."
Chris Bruce, general manager, BT Openzone, said: "We are seeing huge demand for Wi-Fi in the leisure and hospitality sector. BT customers can also connect at over 190,000 residential and commercial hotspots in the UK and Ireland including BAA airports, BA lounges, Caffe Nero, Hilton, Thistle and Ramada Jarvis hotels and, from July 2009, Starbucks coffee stores."
For casual users, BT Openzone is available from as little as ½p per minute. Vouchers can be bought online at www.btopenzone.com