From the article:
<<Google WiFi: Google put about 400 wireless Internet hotspots around hometown Mountain View, Calif., (...) and now provides about 90% of the city with free wi-fi. A pilot of sorts for bigger municipal wi-fi networks Google was sponsoring – a business model that's mostly dead now. Launched Sept. 2005; Google promises to keep it active until 2010.>>
What was the business model and what died? |
I think the business model was "know the user's wi-fi location so that Google can serve location-targeted ads". |
