Who would want a free net service? If I’m to ask this question in a net-hungry class, all hands will be raised, no doubt about that. Anything free is always welcome, well almost always. Free net service is however always always welcome. This becomes apparent from overwhelming response from the residents of Google’s hometown at Mountain View, northern California.
“It worked smashingly,” Chris Sacca, Google’s head of special initiatives, told AFP. “We have really been looking forward to this day. The citizens have embraced it as their network.”
A ‘smaller-than-peanut amount’ of $1 million from Google’s coffers has gone to make a high-quality network that lets Mountain View residents from anywhere inside the city’s 12 square miles area to link to the internet with wireless-enabled computers and other devices including telephones. Google says the cost of running the system is ‘phenomenally cheap’. That’s a good news!
What about a similar service in Kolkata! I’m way too optimistic, you might say. So I’m. After all, what’s the harm in dreaming the improbable! Google has a place everywhere as the picture above shows. Why not in the hearts of Kolkattans!!
[The picture above is from http://amiel.typepad.com/]
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