Originally published December 8 2005
Google to bring free WiFi to Mountain View, Calif.
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Mountain View, Calif., is the city of Google's corporate headquarters. Wifi transmitters will be installed onto the city's 3,000 telephone poles and street lights, transforming the whole city into one huge hotspot.
Internet search giant Google has offered to bring free wireless Internet, or WiFi, connections to Mountain View, the city of its corporate headquarters.
``This proposal is in the same spirit of making the world's information easily and quickly accessible as our recent San Francisco WiFi bid and is technically comparable to that initiative,'' Google said in a statement released Wednesday.
Google officials approached Mountain View leaders a few weeks ago and offered to hoist 300 transmitters onto the city's 3,000 telephone poles and street lights, according to Mountain View Mayor Matt Neely.
Mountain View, a mid-Peninsula city of 12 square miles and about 72,000 residents, is also home to the NASA/Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, where Google is building a research complex.
If Google's proposal for Mountain View mirrors its suggestions for San Francisco, it could likely entail installation of a network of transmitters that would parlay data, via invisible radio waves, back and forth between people's computers and the Internet.
Mountain View is expected to make the Google proposal public today in advance of the Tuesday city council meeting where it will be discussed.
Unlike in San Francisco, Mountain View city leaders have not launched a formal call for companies to compete to bring affordable wireless Internet connections to the city.
The city had signed an agreement with fellow Mountain View company MetroFi to install a citywide WiFi network, MetroFi Chief Executive Chuck Haas said Wednesday.
MetroFi has already installed WiFi networks in the nearby cities of Santa Clara and Cupertino, where customers pay a monthly fee of $19.95 to get online.
MetroFi will launch a citywide network in Sunnyvale by the end of the month, Haas said.
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