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Google Offers Free WiFi for Mountain View, CA

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the right-price dept.

Patik writes "AFP reports that Google is offering free wifi internet access to all 70,000 residents of its headquarter's hometown, Mountain View, CA. Google expects the entire city to be covered by next June. Basic access will be free while Google retains the right to charge for premium services. This comes after Google made a bid to provide free access for all of San Francisco (pop. 744,000) two months ago, although that city is still considering the bid."

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  1. Gah! by AntiTuX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why couldn't they have done this like.. 3 years ago when I was still living there?!

    Grr. Now I'm stuck in the cultureless wasteland known as Phoenix Arizona. Least mountain view has a history to it. SGI, Netscape, Cobalt, Handspring... Phoenix has crackheads and cactuses. God's ashtray. Least the rent's cheap.

    I'm so friggin jealous, minus the rent prices out there.

  2. San Francisco Wi-Fi by J.+T.+MacLeod · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Are people really going to be out in the streets using free wi-fi?

    For a while, I'm sure. Eventually, as blood runs deeper in the streets of San Francisco due to their new city-wide weapons ban, I'd imagine that most of the time they'll be hiding out in their houses next to their wired connections.