One Big Wireless "Hotspot"

Our Prime Minister just announce plans to implement free wireless broadband in all public areas. Although this signals a way forward for our country, I have a few concerns. Firstly almost every household have their own wireless network. How can we ensure that the network access we having currently are from the free one or our private line? On a broader view, with such a large scale implementation, there will be a lot of technical issues that need to be iron out before it can work smoothly. In addition, the large number of wireless signals in the air competing for free bandwidth as well as the number of users, I don't expect the speed will be high. Lastly, as one VR-Zone forumer points out, with the island congested with the signals from the mobile/pager network, the 3G network and so many different comms networks, not forgetting the TV and radio frequencies, we are "really bathing in coherent radiation." All these radiation more or less will have some effects on our biological and psychological health. We are really going to be in one big "hotspot".