Comments on: GoogleNet Goes To Mountain View

By: Om Malik on Broadband : » Silicon Valley’s Wireless Plans

Om Malik on Broadband : » Silicon Valley’s Wireless Plans — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 23:48:52 +0000

[...] Secondly, I wonder what they are doing to bring together all the various wireless projects that are currently underway? For instance Google is building a network in Mountain View, and MetroFi has built up networks in a handful of South Bay cities. [...]

By: Om Malik on Broadband : » FONing a WiFi Revolution

Om Malik on Broadband : » FONing a WiFi Revolution — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:21:31 +0000

[...] Still, I see the potential of this approach. Imagine if FoN could link up with Google WiFi, Metro Fi, and scores of other WiFi efforts. As one very smart man who pointed out the amazing potential of FoN said, this should have been Google’s WiFi play all along. [...]

By: player window

player window — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:32:23 +0000

[...] Google wants to blanket it’s home city of Mountain View with free Wi-Fi, as they are with San Francisco. Submitting a plan to the City of Mountain View, residents and those who work in the small Silicon Valley town that headquarters the number one search engine may get free Internet surfing real soon. a Google spokesperson in an emailed statement said, âProviding free Wi-Fi access to Mountain View is one way Google can support the citizens and businesses in the community where weâre headquartered. We look forward to speaking with the City Council and hope they accept this proposal so we can offer free Wi-Fi access to the residents and visitors of Mountain View.â? [Source] [...]

By: Kimo Crossman

Kimo Crossman — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:53:35 +0000

See my local SF WIFI blog, Google is offering Moutain View free wifi to put the screws to San Francisco city officials on their offer there.

http://www.webnetic.net

By: Lanny

Lanny — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 04:58:57 +0000

Sorry, I was wrong about the above post — after checking further, the Palo Alto Daily was reporting on Google’s offer to the city of Mountain View, not for Palo Alto.

By: Lanny

Lanny — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 03:42:14 +0000

I saw only a headline in Palo Alto Daily about Google offering free wireless in the city of Palo Alto — didn’t have time to check further. Any confirmation of this? Haven’t been able to confirm online. Maybe they were talking about Mountain View as is reported in the SJ Mercury News and here on this blog. I’m hoping Google will offer free wi-fi in other bay area cities pretty soon, as I’m still on 56K dialup.

By: Ravi

Ravi — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:36:40 +0000

Maybe Google should buy someone like t-mobile and offer data(which is pretty much throughout major metro) and voice/IM. Data for laptop/desktop and Google can pretty much give the wireless card away relatively cheap and the cell phones can be pre-installed with google IM and software to complement their offerings like IM, Maps, Search,GoogleTV in the future and so on and on. Just a thought…

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:31:10 +0000

Kickass! Looks like buying a house in 94043 was a good move after all.

Of course, steel construction could really kill that in a hurry. Looks like Speakeasy shouldn’t write off my $50 just yet.

I think Mountain View would make a good test bed for future wider deployments…I doubt they will be content just to cover SF, or even the entire peninsula, if there turns out to be a business model buried in there somewhere…

By: Gary Lerhaupt

Gary Lerhaupt — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:34:16 +0000

Kapp’s Pizza in Mountain View (on Castro St) had a WiFi by Google sign in their window up until a couple weeks ago. I guess they decided to think bigger.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:05:06 +0000

Kickass, I am moving to Mountain View this month. With $15/month DSL hookup broadband is not terribly expensive anyway, but free WiFi would be always nice.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:07:42 +0000

i imagine being a mountain view company, they have some goodwill in that part of the country. nothing more i would guess. it would be cheaper to extend their own networks and build out the network?

By: rick

rick — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:26:42 +0000

Why does Google even bother with a relatively small area if it plans not to expand beyond. There are a lot of hassles and costs to the learning curve coupled with no economy of scale efficiences if further expansion isn’t planned.

What’s up with that?