As I’ve said before, ”Wi-Fi technology looks like the most organic source of development of network infrastructure. Like phototropism, the bandwidth grows and develops in the direction of the most interest and need.” Sexy corporate funding will create buzz and might juice infrastructure in the short term, but centralized Fortune 500 planning may work counter to the natural evolution of the technology.
“’Google has submitted a proposal to offer free, wireless Internet access (Wi-Fi) to the entire city of San Francisco,’ Google said in a statement.”
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-10-01T062616Z_01_KRA110501_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-GOOGLE-WIFI.XML