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Niue Gets Island-Wide WiFi
NinjaPablo writes "Business Wire is running a story about the polynesian island of Niue. Niue has just completed an island-wide wifi network, making it the first country with nationwide free wifi access. This comes after countrywide email was started in 1997, dialup access in 1999, and broadband this Spring, all free for anyone."
Island... beach... free internet...
Where do I sign up?
"Niue - Wardriving Made Easy"
Karma: Oldschool
You get to still say you have nationwide email.
Oh man. Picture the reception the Pope could get if he lined his hat with antennae.
Yachts with onboard computer equipment with WiFi cards and external antennas will be able to park in the harbor and access full Internet services from their vessels as an open node, also free of charge.
Cool! Now all I need to do is buy a yacht and I will have _free internet access_! Saving $50 per month in broadband fees, I'll have a ROI on the yacht within 83 years. ($50000 yacht)
A substantial portion of Niue's tourism comes from visiting yacht traffic during the non-cyclone season.
So you mean there's a cyclone season as well? Damn..
"I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy"
So, free UMTS for everyone by the end of this year or next summer?
And how about free beer (or cocktails at the beach)?
My cats ate my karma. They also wrote this comment.
So we've got wardriving and warflying or whatever, so what do we call this? Warsailing, waryachting, warboating...
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
When you can just make shit up?
Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
Is this a first? Has /. taken out an entire nation?
for ships out at sea for extended periods of time (or just passing by), they can take a quick run to Niue and drop off/pick up their email without having to dock..
You are some kind of maniacal funnyman! How can you spread your funny-throw-down quips around here without getting spammed to death by pure fun-laugh responses? Wow. I have to wake up my girlfriend and let her know at 2 am central time that there is some kind of mad comedic genius at work on Slashdot. Anything Pope is just brilliant. Pope AND hat AND the hat is large? Well, let me say friend that you have given all of us a good squirt in the face of hilarious joy. Mods, please mod this up +5 Sidesplitter! Funnyman, you've hilariously earned it!
Nieu News Knew New Wieu-Fieu.
Oh, so they're using wireless because the wind disrupts IP-over-avian. :)
Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.
...if they ever considered using ALOHA instead of WiFi.
Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.
Not just that -- it'd be a right pain in the arse when your ISP migrates in the winter for a warmer climate!
That if we parked a yacht offshore and started up Kazaa.. it'd be giving a whole new meaning to coastal piracy.
They can be the first to supply transpacific fibre-optic cable internet connections to all the aquatic residents of their submerged kingdom...
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, General Electric, and Exxon
So when is my island going to get full wifi coverage. I knows its a problem that I live on the biggest one around; Australia. Come on Alston!!
-- Karma Karma Karma Karma, Karma Chameleon - Boy George
They built a Wonder that let them skip an item in the Tech Tree.
Duh.
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Hell, if they were much smaller they could just one one Bluetooth access point.
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They DO have a telephone system.
Yep! And the telephone for it should be delivered any day now!
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