Free Wi-Fi from Google coming?
Is Google on the brink of offering free Wi-Fi? Maybe. Speculation based on Google’s plans for the San Francisco area lead Om Malik to speculate in the September 2005 issue of Business 2.0 that Google may find it advantageous to build its own nationwide network, including free Wi-Fi as is planned in the San Francisco area.
So is Google about to offer free Net access to everyone? Characteristically, the company is cryptic about its goal. “We are sponsoring [Feeva] because [it is] trying to make free Wi-Fi available in San Francisco, and this matches Google’s goal to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible,” says Google spokesman Nate Taylor.
Yes, it’s all still speculation based on Google’s support of Feeva and aquisition of “orphaned” fiber-optic cable systems, but it is an intriguing possibility for folks who live in major metropolitan areas, at least.
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