Wi-Fi for Everyone

Google has set up a free wireless network in Mountain View, California, the city that houses Google headquarters. The network was expensive to set up and is limited mostly to outdoor users, but it is free, which means it still beats the local Borders.

Well, nothing is truly free. Some analysts see this is as merely an opportunity for targeted advertising, but John Dvorak sees it as the shot fired across the bow of major telecommunications companies.

I tend to think that Google is an experimenter, and that this wi-fi setup has been in the works for a long time. However, it's high time for an Internet service revolution, and Google may be the one who can bring it.