Austin Becoming Wi-Fi Hot Spot

Posted by michael on Sunday June 13, 2004 @09:39AM from the but-when-you-walk-outside-you're-in-texas dept.

Omega1045 writes "The Austin Chronicle is running an interesting article on how Austin is fast becoming the Wi-Fi Capital of the Free (as in beer) Wireless World. With the industry standardization board Wi-Fi Alliance moving to Austin earlier this year, and groups like Austin Free-Net helping local businesses, the article quotes Austin has having more hotspots 'than anywhere else on the planet'. While this article does quite a bit of bragging about Austin, it also does a great job of highlighting how businesses and local non-profits can work together to promote and profit from free Wi-Fi Internet access. This provides an excellent model for other cities to follow using tools like Less Network."

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Re:Not quite the world's WiFi leader by noidentity · 2004-06-13 10:28 · Score: 0, Troll

Do you know how nice it is to take your iBook, Vaio, whatever, down to the local park and have free high-speed WiFi access? Thanks to these people (and others!), some day you will.

How much nicer to leave the junk at home.