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alfreda89 ([personal profile] alfreda89) wrote2005-10-16 02:02 pm
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Biggest Wi-Fi Cloud Is in Rural Oregon

Why does this exist? Because the big boys didn't think they could make any money at it, so a smaller business made a proposal. (And it was an Austin, TX company!)

"While cities around the country are battling over plans to offer free or cheap Internet access, this lonely terrain is served by what is billed as the world's largest hotspot, a wireless cloud that stretches over 700 square miles of landscape so dry and desolate it could have been lifted from a cowboy tune."