Google officially bestows its free WiFi service upon Mountain View today. The $1 million dollar project covers 90 percent of the city’s 12 square miles, and run at up to 1mbps. Not too shabby at all.
“The feedback was overwhelming positive,” said Chris Sacca, head of special initiatives for Google. “It’s glowing, and in fact it’s why we’re launching the network earlier than we planned. It’s hard to keep up with the requests to get on the network.”
So with the 380 transceivers mounted on the city’s light poles, both you and I can hop on to their network as long as we’re within 500 feet. But since I am more than 8,400 miles away from Googleplex (according to Google Earth), I guess I’ll pass.
August 21st, 2006 at 3:01 pm
Way to go, is Dublin’s office going to be next to spread the signal around?