Sub Stop offers downtowners wireless hotspot
Downtown Oklahoma City has a new hotspot for area business people - free of charge.
By Heidi R. Centrella
The Journal Record 6/14/2004

Located at Sub Stop in the First National Center, the newly installed Wi-Fi service will allow downtowners to receive high-speed access to the Internet on their laptops or other wireless devices.

Logix Communications is providing the service free of charge. A grand opening, complete with a demonstration and gifts, will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday at Sub Stop, the first business downtown to be equipped with such service.

"This allows people to get away from their office, have their lunch and still accomplish some of their goals without the pressures of being in their own office trying to accomplish things," said Steven Cargill, district manager for Logix.

"It's happening throughout the country - wireless Internet is the next big thing starting to hit (businesses)."

The free wireless hotspots are available in Logix's "Smart" buildings, meaning buildings that are wired for broadband Internet access and local and long-distance digital telephone services, as a way of saying "thanks" for their business. The hotspots are located in a central, common area of the building. For instance, at 50 Penn Place - another of Logix's Smart buildings - the food court area is a wireless hotspot, complements of the telecommunications company. Recently 101 Park Avenue was designated a Smart building, as well.

At the end of the day, owners of small companies will have the same telecommunications capabilities as the larger companies, Cargill said.

"Our Smart buildings allow everybody equal access."

"Our goal is to help businesses and their customers take advantage of telecommunications technology in an easy and efficient way," said Matt Asmus, chief operating officer of Logix.

"We work hard to meet this goal and with Wi-Fi Internet soon to become as commonplace as cell phones, we were pleased to give people in downtown Oklahoma City a taste of the freedom and mobility that comes with Wi-Fi service."

In order to access the service, computers must be equipped with a wireless Internet access card.