Cashbox, a UK-based provider of automated telling machines (ATMs), has entered into a five-year deal with BT to integrate Wi-Fi access to all of its ATM sites.
According to Cashbox, the partnership is expected to allow users to surf, work, and make cheaper VoIP calls with any wireless-enabled device using BT Openzone wireless broadband service.
Cashbox said that the high speed wireless broadband service will initially be available in 10 of Cashbox’s client locations, of which there are more than 2,500 across the UK, including Tiger Tiger sites in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Cardiff.
BT broadband customers with inclusive Wi-Fi access as well as O2 iPhone users with access BT Openzone hotspots will be able to use the service. Customers from iPass, Boingo and other BT Openzone roaming partners will also be able to use the service.
Ciaran Morton, CEO of Cashbox, said: “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 of 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.
