Sky Reaches For The Cloud

Two bits of news for fans of wi-fi hotspots:

At the end of January 2011, Sky announced that its bought The Cloud, the wi-fi hotspot service with around 5,000 wi-fi sports around the UK. Expect these to be made available to Sky Broadband customers sometime soon.

In the same week, phone provider o2 announced plans to create a free Wireless hotspot network. The service will be available at a number of key venues around the UK, and will be free to o2 and non-o2 customers like. It’s expected that the service will be offered for free in return for opting in to an ad service of some kind, possibly text message.

We featured the various wi-fi hotspot services in Show 46 – Wi-fi Hotspot Review

It’s at this point, we’d normally be able to offer a Sky / Cloud-related pun, but Carl was unavailable for commentat the time of recording. Got a pun? Add it below!