Cashbox enables all ATM sites as Wi-Fi hotspots

Web users will be able to use VoIP solutions and browse the internet in more locations as Cashbox is turning its ATM sites into Wi-Fi hotspots.

As the result of a deal with BT Openzone, ten client locations in bars and restaurants will be equipped with the technology and the service could be expanded to over 2,500 more if it proves successful.

Cashbox clients include Abacus, The Wall, Digress and Agenda in the City of London, as well as Tiger Tiger sites in cities such as Glasgow, London and Cardiff.

Ciaran Morton, chief executive 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."

He added that more people used the company's cash machines in May this year than in any other month previously, suggesting a Wi-Fi service could prove popular.

In related news, accountancy giant PricewaterhouseCoopers has forecast that UK broadband take-up will grow by seven per cent every year between now and 2013.