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The free wifi reach Plaza Mayor and expand to 40 markets Olavide.

Madrid, 25 ago .- The main square of Madrid now offers free wifi for those who want to connect to the Internet with his own team, as will soon Plaza Olavide and before the end of the term, in May 2011, 40 markets municipal.

It is a service already offered by the city council in sections such as the Plaza de Santo, fallen earth chips, Domingo since 2007 and has been released today on a terrace in the Plaza Mayor, the delegate of Economy and Citizen Participation, Miguel Angel Villanueva.

Madrid City Council assumes a cost of 10,000 euros per year to offer this wireless connection in the main square but expects that within a year the private sector take care of this provision, if required under publicity.

, fallen earth chips, Besides those points, the city will offer this service in the 19 centers of the Agency for Employment, and municipal libraries in the 29 classrooms in Madrid Tecnologia.

There is also wifi in Chueca and space Triball (behind the Gran Via), as well as about 80 newsagents in the city, although in the latter case is not free.

Villanueva stressed that the, sto credits, extension in Madrid this type of internet connection is chaired by the criteria of strict legality, effectiveness and economy, for which it has obtained the endorsement of a definitive and positive resolution of the Commission's Telecommunications Market ( CMT) last July 22 in response to formal consultation by the City Council.

Also meets all the recommendations made by the CMT and therefore the bandwidth offered is not excessive.

This is what differentiates Madrid's initiative which launched before other cities, according to the delegate, who did not want to remember names, "were wrong to generalize access to the Internet and were punished for it.

For Villanueva, this service, which today tried together on a foreign tourist was surprised because he had to go to the Internet through a page that requires the acceptance of conditions, is an "instrument to serve and retain tourists and besides "has popular support."

Noted in this connection that a feasibility study conducted by the City Council in February 2009 to ensure the usefulness of the new service found that more than 94% of the people of Madrid City Council supports this action and value with a remarkable high: Citizens with 8.1 points over 10 tourists with a 8.5 and traders with 7.9 points.

That study also shows that the ability to access the Internet at the street through wifi is a better image as a modern city of Madrid and technology for 87% of respondents.

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