{"id":1786,"date":"2005-09-21T00:02:13","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T00:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2005-09-21T00:02:13","modified_gmt":"2005-09-21T00:02:13","slug":"google_free_wif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1786","title":{"rendered":"Google Free WiFi: Doing Evil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.com\/News\/mft\/2005\/mft05092015.htm\">Seth Jayson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>This is big and potentially scary news, for a couple of reasons. The first is fairly obvious: If the reports of Google&#8217;s purchasing of &#8220;dark fiber&#8221; &#8212; unused bandwidth and network infrastructure &#8212;&nbsp;are true, the firm could conceivably roll out a &#8220;last-mile&#8221; Internet delivery service. Maintaining and operating all that infrastructure&nbsp;(along with servicing all those WiFi hubs) would be very expensive. But the idea makes more sense if you assume that the company will deploy&nbsp;its real capital once&nbsp;the new&nbsp;WiMax standard, which broadcasts wireless Internet over a much wider area than WiFi, rolls&nbsp;around. Coupling this with an upgraded version of Google Talk could conceivably make the tech startup a force in telecom<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Google WiFi traffic is subject to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/privacy.html\">privacy policy<\/a>, which everyone should be fully aware of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Jayson: This is big and potentially scary news, for a couple of reasons. The first is fairly obvious: If the reports of Google&#8217;s purchasing of &#8220;dark fiber&#8221; &#8212; unused bandwidth and network infrastructure &#8212;&nbsp;are true, the firm could conceivably roll out a &#8220;last-mile&#8221; Internet delivery service. Maintaining and operating all that infrastructure&nbsp;(along with servicing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}