Free wi-fi network accessed 1.1m times (From York Press)

• "I don't mind having a free wifi service and is good for tourists and locals but I wonder how they came up with that figure? 1.1 million what?
  
  Some smartphones connect to open Wifi networks and try to establish connections to the internet. If the network has a user agreement acceptance form (I hope it does) then only people who agreed to it could access the internet.
  Are we to believe that 1.1 million individual people actively accepted the terms in two months? Or perhaps 250K people accepted the agreement over four times over two months? I doubt it.
  
  I reckon the actual figure is 1.1 million attempts by devices (local shoppers, shop staff, tourist) to access the internet or just looking for wifi over two months. A small fraction would have been actually initiated by the device owner.
  
  This is just the council justifying the project with exaggerated or misleading figures and the media simply publishing without checking the facts (churnalism)"
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