{"id":397,"date":"2006-08-17T14:59:31","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T09:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/08\/17\/google-launches-free-wireless-internet-service\/"},"modified":"2006-08-17T14:59:31","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T09:29:31","slug":"google-launches-free-wireless-internet-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/08\/17\/google-launches-free-wireless-internet-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Google launches free wireless Internet service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has opened a <strong>wireless Internet <em>umbrella <\/em><\/strong>over its hometown in <strong>northern California&#8217;s <\/strong>high-tech Silicon Valley, <em>enabling anyone in the city to connect online for <strong>free<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>It worked smashingly,&#8221; <\/strong><strong>Chris Sacca<\/strong>, Google head of special initiatives, said. &#8220;We have really been looking forward to this day. The citizens have embraced it as their network.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google spent <strong>one million dollars <\/strong>creating a network that lets people with wireless-enabled computers, telephones or other devices to link to the Internet nearly anywhere in the city of Mountain View, which covers <strong>almost 31 sqkm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Google <strong>affixed WiFi antennae <\/strong>to city-owned lamp posts and was working with residents who have offered their homes as antenna spots in <strong>&#8216;dead zones<\/strong>.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The cost of running the system was &#8220;phenomenally <strong>cheap<\/strong>&#8221; and the network was in keeping with <strong>Google&#8217;s belief in universal access to the Internet and the world&#8217;s information<\/strong>, according to Sacca.<\/p>\n<p>Ack: &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/report.asp?NewsID=1047747\">DNA India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has opened a wireless Internet umbrella over its hometown in northern California&#8217;s high-tech Silicon Valley, enabling anyone in the city to connect online for free. &#8220;It worked smashingly,&#8221; Chris Sacca, Google head of special initiatives, said. &#8220;We have really been looking forward to this day. The citizens have embraced it as their network.&#8221; Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[167,3],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","tag-google","tag-internet","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}