Posts Tagged ‘WiFi Technology’

Aug
31/06
Norwich Gets Free WiFi
Last Updated on Wednesday, 4 November 2009 11:15
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Thursday, August 31st, 2006
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The city of Norwich has become Britain’s largest open network. You can login within a 4km radius of county hall, which has a a “pre WiMax” 5.8GHz connection sitting on top. Gosh.

So, is Norwich a hotbed of Gypsy activity, with little tinkers tappety tapping away in the rural east of Britain?

Aug
20/06
Google’s neighbourhood, one big WiFi network!
Last Updated on Wednesday, 4 November 2009 11:05
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Sunday, August 20th, 2006
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Last week Google offered to make it’s entire hometown one big WiFi network

Mountain View, California, will then be the biggest community in the US with free WiFi.

About 72,000 people live in Mountain View, an 11 square mile city 35 miles south of San Francisco.

companies like Google and VeriSign are based in Mountainview, so during the day the population can rise above 100,000