If always being connected is important to you and your business then the latest agreement between Cashbox and BT will suit you well. Cashbox ATM sites are to be turned into wireless hot spots. BT, via its BT Openzone network, have made a five year agreement with Cashbox to offer wireless technology in a number of their 2,500 locations across the UK.

The first of 10 sites went live on the 22nd July 2009, allowing those with wireless technology devices to work, surf or game. BT Option 3 broadband customers can use the Openzone network for free as can O2 iPhone users. Casual users can pay for online time in a variety of ways including monthly subscriptions, vouchers or by the minute. Customers from iPass, Boingo and other BT Openzone roaming partners will also be able to use the service.

The ATM sites which will offer the wireless facility include 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.

Ciaran Morton, CEO of Cashbox said, ‘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 month for 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.’

Tags: Wi-Fi

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