di Antonio

C'è riuscita San Francisco. Grazie all'accordo siglato il 5 gennaio 2007 tra il Comune e Google/Earthlink. Cosa ci insegna questo accordo? Che almeno per i consumi residenziali alcune piattaforme innovative possono sopravvivere e svilupparsi solo con accesso easy&free, essendo finanziate da varie forme di advertising. L'accordo prevede che " EarthLink to build a citywide wireless network and allow Google to provide free internet access." With an estimated one million or so folks to benefit from the implementation, things are looking good if you've been itching for everywhere-WiFi and happen to live in SF, and while EarthLink still plans on offering a "fee-based premium service," Google is looking out for the little guy by dishing out the free stuff. Apparently, no hard pricing figures nor rollout dates have been set just yet, but things should start moving along relatively soon if Google has anything to do with it, as a statement released by the company stated its intent to "to see the service go live as soon as possible" -- now that's what we're talking about"....