Free Google Wi-Fi in San Francisco

by Scott Beale on October 1, 2005 · 4 comments

Ryan

Yesterday evening, Om Malik broke the news that Google is planning on rolling out free wi-fi service in San Francisco. The network will have speeds up to 300 kbps with a free VPN client. Om had previously written about this as a possiblity in an article for Business 2.0 and now it has been confirmed.

Please note, the above photo of Ryan and his broken PowerBook have absolutely nothing at all to do with this news. I just really like it and have been looking for an excuse to use it with a post. Maybe free Wi-Fi will make Ryan forget about his PowerBook woes.

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1 Victoria E October 2, 2005 at 5:08 am

I’m very curious to see how fast Google makes this happen, as well as how well it will develop their WiFi service.

Go SF! :)

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2 Nymo October 3, 2005 at 5:06 pm

http://wifi.google.com/download.html
I Havn’t Really Tired It Yet, But It Sure Sounds Good..

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