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By Marziah Karch, About.com Guide to Google

Wi-Fi for Everyone

Monday August 21, 2006
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.

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August 22, 2006 at 4:27 am
(1) carlo!72 says:

It’s nice to know that google is always at the start of something truly revolutionary. This move to create a free wi-fi environment is something that other companies should try, if they have the guts and resources to do it.

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