Mountain View To Partially Replace Google Wi-Fi

itwbennett writes "Google launched the citywide Wi-Fi network with much fanfare in 2006 as a way for Mountain View residents and businesses to connect to the Internet at no cost. It covers most of the Silicon Valley city and worked well until last year, as Slashdot readers may recall, when connectivity got rapidly worse. As a result, Mountain View is installing new Wi-Fi hotspots in parts of the city to supplement the poorly performing network operated by Google. Both the city and Google have blamed the problems on the design of the network. Google, which is involved in several projects to provide Internet access in various parts of the world, said in a statement that it is 'actively in discussions with the Mountain View city staff to review several options for the future of the network.'"

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[hairyfeet]

Oh Lord save us from the libertarian wonks! if you had bothered scanning the page before blathering on about your free market bullshit, and it IS bullshit BTW as the USA has NEVER had a free market going all the way back to the patronage system and teapot dome the government has been in bed with big business, you would have seen most who live there are saying IT NEVER WORKED, you can be standing alone at 3AM right in the middle of coverage and it DOESN'T WORK, it NEVER WORKED and the few times they were ever able to get on it made dialup look speedy!

Not to mention the post you were replying to had a LOT more than just Wifi, like rampant unemployment, poverty, Google pulling a Walmart and driving smaller businesses out, ghettos growing in the shadow of FB and Google...notice you don't say a word about ANY of that. Doesn't surprise me as the far right tend to have blinders on and just gloss over those kinds of problems or say the "free market will fix it" like its done so well before when it comes to poverty. Well if you consider the top 3% getting 96% of the recovery money helping poverty I suppose it has, most would call bullshit.