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Google is launching free public Wi-Fi at locations across Mexico.
Initially, Google Station will be available in 60+ high-traffic venues across Mexico City and nationwide, including airports, shopping malls and public transit stations. Google plans to reach 100+ locations before the end of the year.
Google already provides public Wi-Fi in India and Indonesia.
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From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about Wi-Fi. Here is what it replaced:
Metricom Ricochet served 1994–2001. What ultimately replaced it?
Metricom Ricochet a mesh of pager-sized shoulder radios talking to pole-top microcell repeaters, delivering ~28-128 kbit/s wireless internet across a handful of cities. Its job passed to Wi-Fi — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
