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Google Confirms San Francisco Free WiFi Service

Wednesday 5 October 2005 @ 12:15 pm

In August, a breaking news spreaded out regarding the city of San Francisco of the United State will become a wide scale free WiFi zone that covers the entire city. Then exactly 1 month later, I talked about the the free secure VPN service for broadband offered by Google, which I thought very much related to the news above.

Today, I come across an article reveals that Google has already confirmed the plan to provide free WiFi service to the entire San Francisco city.

Quoted:
The company today filed documents in response to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsomâ€™s request for information for the city wide network.

This news spreaded rapidly after the confirmation from Google officials, who also revealed that San Francisco people will enjoy a free 300Kbps (kilobits per second), always on connection anywhere in the city. The speed is not very promising, but it is totally FREE. Anyway, this speed reminds me of my first broadband experience when I was surfing the Internet at the speed of 384Kbps 2 years back.

300Kbps will definitely not enough for certain heavy users, so, Google will also be offering wholesale access to other service providers as an extra service that offers higher throughput connections to the users.

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