Articles Related to Wi-Fi service

The purchase of another municipal utility's telco network adds a residential wireless system to its portfolio. An executive says this may offer more choices to business customers

Municipal Wi-Fi has been a hot topic for a while and shows no signs of cooling off. Late last month Google launched a free Wi-Fi service in its home town of Mountain View, Calif., making the city of 72,000 the largest U.S. city to offer a completely free broadband wireless network.

The WiMax network will consist of about 200,000 access points each with a range of up to 3 kilometres. They will offer connection speeds of around 75Mbps and cover 80 per cent of Japan's population by the end of 2007, according to Kaori Ogawa, a spokeswoman for Heisei Denden Co. Ltd., a Tokyo-based communications carrier.

A report from Toronto-based SeaBoard Group Inc. says wireless adoption is on the way up in Canada, although it seems the technology is taking hold in unlikely places.