While Google's San Francisco Wi-Fi project is still under way with city officials and partner Earthlink, Google is steaming ahead with their plans at developing free Wi-Fi access in their hometown of Mountain View California.
Google has said that the plan is set to be fully completed by the end of June. This project is being developed solely by Google. There are no outside providers. Google is the ISP. They will be working with wireless technology providers to supply the signals, design, and build the network, but Google is going this one virtually on its own. Experimenting with new technologies, and who knows what else.
Ad the present moment, Google has said that there are no plans to place ads on the free service network, but if they feel that they could be beneficial to end users, they will look into that addition.
There has been no exact date as to the exact release date on this Mountain View project.
Google's Mountain View Wi-Fi Service
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. Who is this Microsoft proponent to criticize anyone's product for being inadequately secure?
Posted at 10:56PM on Jun 15th 2006 by Harold Jamm
1. The rumor is security of the wi-fi service is a nightmare and hackers with their simple tools are capable of retrieving anyones personal information from the core of the Google proprietary wi-fi OS.
Google should stay out of this business. It along with the rampant liberalism at their mountain view locations are strangling Google and are beginning to unravel the company.
Microsoft is licking their chops. This is the Strategic Inflection Point
Posted at 10:34AM on Jun 15th 2006 by Timothy Warren