What obligations apply to providers of Wi-Fi access?
8.1 Wi-Fi is a term used to describe a Radio Local Area Network (RLAN) offering broadband wireless access to the Internet. Providers of Wi-Fi access are clearly offering a conveyance service, hence an electronic communication service. However, depending on the terms by which potential customers gain access to the service it may or may not be a publicly available service. 8.2 Where access is provided on the internet café model, typically with a time-based pricing structure and a service open to anyone, the provider of Wi-FI access will be providing a public electronic communication service. However there are other circumstances in which Wi-Fi access is provided in a way which does not make it available to members of the public; where, for example, access is restricted to members of an academic community or to the customers of a particular hotel. As the WiFi market is still in an early stage of development, with a variety of business models being tried out, it is not practicable to give
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