BT's Wireless City initiative hopes to make wireless data access pervasive in large U.K. cities such as Newcastle and Birmingham initially as well as six other city centers in the future. The program is limited to allowing local government employees and citizens access to local government content such as tourism information. It does not include providing an open channel to the web, either for free or for a fee, thus traveling professionals like journalists should look for other infrastructure to connect wirelessly to the Internet while in these cities.
Via [computing.co.uk]