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GOOGLE LAUNCHES FREE WIRELESS INTERNET SERVICE
San Francisco
The Economic Times
Google has opened a wireless Internet umbrella over its HomeTown in northern California's high-tech Silicon Valley, enabling anyone in the city to connect online for free.
"It worked smashingly," Chris Sacca, Google head of special initiatives, said on Wednesday. "We have really been looking forward to this day. The citizens have embraced it as their network."
Google spent one million dollars creating a network that lets people with wireless-enabled computers, telephones or other devices to link to the Internet nearly anywhere in the city of Mountain View, which covers almost 12 square miles (31 square kilometres). Google affixed WiFi antennae to city-owned lampposts and was working with residents who have offered their homes as antenna spots in "dead zones."
The cost of running the system was "phenomenally cheap" and the network was in keeping with Google's belief in universal access to the Internet and the world's information, according to Sacca.
GOOGLE LAUNCHES FREE WIRELESS INTERNET SERVICE
San Francisco
The Economic Times
Google has opened a wireless Internet umbrella over its HomeTown in northern California's high-tech Silicon Valley, enabling anyone in the city to connect online for free.
"It worked smashingly," Chris Sacca, Google head of special initiatives, said on Wednesday. "We have really been looking forward to this day. The citizens have embraced it as their network."
Google spent one million dollars creating a network that lets people with wireless-enabled computers, telephones or other devices to link to the Internet nearly anywhere in the city of Mountain View, which covers almost 12 square miles (31 square kilometres). Google affixed WiFi antennae to city-owned lampposts and was working with residents who have offered their homes as antenna spots in "dead zones."
The cost of running the system was "phenomenally cheap" and the network was in keeping with Google's belief in universal access to the Internet and the world's information, according to Sacca.
