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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. Spam haven? by cly · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Spammers can make use of the unrestricted wifi to spam to their hearts delight.

    Would the place become a base for spam corporations?

  2. Re:Free? by tommten · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No.. but probably a lot of the money came from Sweden.. since the .nu-domain is quite popular here. (FYI. in swedish the word nu means now)

    --
    - I choked on the red pill and now I'm stuck in limbo
  3. good to hear by Plix · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I own several .nu domains myself, and they don't come cheap (to just change your dns server listings - or any other setting - costs $10 [which can be avoided by waiting until it comes time to renew the domain]). I'm just glad to hear that all that money is going to a good cause, unlike many other tlds such as .ws, .tv, etc. which are marketed as entirely american and without any significant benifit to the countries for which they were originally created.

  4. In all seriousness... by Max+Threshold · · Score: 4, Interesting

    See how much better things work in small societies where everyone feels like a significant part of the whole? This is why we Americans need to lay the smack down on our Federal government and give the power (read "money") back to our state and local governments. If your city council got the lion's share of your tax dollars, you might have free Wi-Fi, too.

    Screw this blood-for-oil bullshit! I want my free Wi-Fi!