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Google to establish massive scale free WiFi in New York

article published on 28 June, 2015

Google-owned company Sidewalk Labs has announced acquisition of Control Group and Titan, two companies that are building a free city wide WiFi. The project will launch in September in New York City, Bloomberg reports. The project aims to bring free and "superfast" WiFi to the city of New York and especially for tourists to exploit. It will use old phone booths ? which there are thousands ... [ read the full article ]

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28. June 2015 @ 12:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
500 million? Don't bet on it. 1/100th of a percent of people that click on ads won't yield this profit IMO.

And who figures 12 years out? Forecasts typically span 10 years. 12 seems like an odd number.

Clearly this is why they chose NY over less populated cities, a numbers game.
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30. June 2015 @ 08:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Google will make their money from the ridiculous amount of data they will collect from everyone using their free Wifi. Money from advertising is just pocket money in comparison.

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