Following the Governmental declaration of 2004, the Brussels Regional Informatics Centre (BRIC) was charged with the elaboration of a business case for low-cost pervasive wireless internet access in the whole Region. The business case for the iBrussels project highlighted and investigated different possibilities on the technical, legal and economical aspects of such a city-operated network. In a Proof of Concept, the campus of the VUB-ULB was covered in a meshed WiFi-network called UrbiZone, offering free internet to all students.

At the demand of the BRIC, the VUB concentratred on the business modelling and use cases for such a network, and started up some Living Lab projects showcasing the possibilities of Mobile WiFi Access in the micro-cosmos of the campus area.