San Fransisco Chooses Google & Earthlink
Well San Fransisco chose Google and Eartlink for their Wifi.
Google Inc.'s bid to blanket San Francisco with a free wireless Internet service cleared a major hurdle Wednesday when a city panel identified the search leader and EarthLink Inc. as the best candidates for the ambitious project.
The recommendation, completing a six-week review, allows the city to begin negotiations with Google and EarthLink, which decided to team together earlier this year after initially bidding against each other. The companies will pay to build the entire network, which is expected to cost at least $15 million.
Google claims they are not interested in providing Wifi to other areas, but that sounds a bit fishy to me.
- Y! MyWeb
>> Google claims they are not interested in providing Wifi
WTF is all that dark fibre capacity for then? I think they are denying it to stop the markets panicking about CAPEX, until the model is proven. I've commented about that elsewhere. The numbers are a bit "back of a fag packet", but given how much of a wobbler the thought of spending a mere $1b or so seems to be giving observers, imagine the reaction if they said "Yeah, we're planning on ploughing over $30b into WiFi over the next 3 - 4 years".
Until there are some proven revenue projections to back that up, it would be commercial suicide for them to admit it.
Google aims to track users with wi-fi
Aaron,
Here's why you may think it sounds fishy...
Google aims to track users with wi-fi
yeah... we just want to
yeah... we just want to target your ads to within 100 feet... but we only want to do it in one town...right ;)