Google Proposes Mountain View Wi-Fi Network

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1:41 am on November 14, 2005 | Category: Wireless Technology, Internet, Wi-Fi

Google has announced plans to use its home city of Mountain View, California as a testing ground to prove the social and financial benefits of providing customers with free wireless internet connections.

“We believe that free (or very cheap) Internet access is a key to bridging the digital divide,” wrote Google product manager Minnie Ingersoll in a letter to Mountain View’s city government. “In our self-interest, we believe that giving more people the ability to access the Internet will drive more traffic to Google and hence more revenue to Google.”

The internet giant’s proposal includes the installation of a free citywide Wi-Fi network, to be completed by the end of June 2006. The network would consist of 300 to 400 transmitters, mounted on telephone polls throughout the city, and Google would pay the $12,600/year in estimated operating costs.

Although exact download speeds were not addressed in Google’s letter, a similar proposal that they made in San Francisco recently predicted speeds of about 300 kbps, which is roughly comparable to a wired DSL connection.

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Do it and you will lead the technology breaktrough!!!

Comment by Cesar E. Gonzales Bustamante — November 15, 2005 #
[…] Internet giant, Google, has been given official approval to launch a free citywide Wi-Fi network in its hometown of Mountain View, California. […]

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