It's a commendable effort, and I guess that a lot of other councils will be watching what happens - it's always fun being a pioneer :-) The "intended use" is interesting though if The Register's account is accurate - if the council is planning to move essential services onto this "free" network they are going to run into problems as they fight for bandwidth along with everyone else. It would be tragic if they couldn't issue parking tickets because too many punters were watching video clips :-) And I hope their security is good too - imagine all those open shares - but of course they'll make sure everything is locked down first... No, it's an exciting project and deserves to succeed, but I think it needs more resource than one council body can throw at it..