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Niue Gets Island-Wide WiFi

Posted by timothy on from the vatican-city-is-next dept.

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."

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  1. If there really is free broadband for every one... by GrodinTierce · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm dying to know the details. From companies perspectives there are enough 'problems' with the flat rate model that many are switching to caps or per GB charges, so would free bandwidth be even 'worse'?

    Basically, what's the speed, and how do they deal with serious users?

    Tierce

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