Why Google's Wi-Fi ambitions 'will fail'

[mandy]

The ever-versatile Google officially entered the wireless ISP (WISP) business last month when the city of Mountain View - Google's hometown in the heart of Silicon Valley - unanimously accepted its nonexclusive bid to offer free Wi-Fi service to its 72,000 denizens.

...users of a Wi-Fi service might suddenly have a neighboring DSL or cable modem customer installing a Wi-Fi access point in their home for residential roaming. If that access point has a stronger signal than the

Google signal on the light pole outside, it could encroach on their service performance...

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