Google will rent 400 street posts in Mountain View, California, for $12,600 a year, on which it will erect 802.11 hubs at a density of around 20 to 30 per square mile. The city wide network is expected to go live in June.
$12,600 a year? Sounds a bit cheap to me... $31.50 per year per pole? Whats the going rate? Sounds like someone may have made a backdoor/under the table deal somewere down the line...no? I would have thought they could of squezze a tad more out of Google.
the local papers here in mountain view interviewed some city council people, who are spinning Google WiFi as a big deal that shows that mountain view is a "leading edge" tech city. which is to say, i'm sure that the city council would've ok'd it even if they were taking a substantial loss. they certainly want to make google feel as cozy as possible here, and it's basically a P.R. win for them.
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You must mean some other Barnsley. No chance it is coming to *this* barnsley, they nick CCTV cameras round here..
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who is running the city of Mountain View?
$12,600 a year? Sounds a bit cheap to me... $31.50 per year per pole? Whats the going rate? Sounds like someone may have made a backdoor/under the table deal somewere down the line...no? I would have thought they could of squezze a tad more out of Google.
Dan
the local papers here in
the local papers here in mountain view interviewed some city council people, who are spinning Google WiFi as a big deal that shows that mountain view is a "leading edge" tech city. which is to say, i'm sure that the city council would've ok'd it even if they were taking a substantial loss. they certainly want to make google feel as cozy as possible here, and it's basically a P.R. win for them.