{"id":1936,"date":"2005-11-12T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2005-11-12T00:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2005-11-12T00:01:04","modified_gmt":"2005-11-12T00:01:04","slug":"googles_free_wi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1936","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Free WiFi Offer to Mountain View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconbeat.com\/entries\/2005\/11\/10\/more_on_googles_mountain_view_wifi_proposal.html\">Silicon Beat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconbeat.com\/entries\/2005\/11\/09\/google_eyes_free_wifi_for_mountain_view.html\">we noted earlier<\/a>, Google wants to deploy free WiFi in its home town of Mountain View, and it&#8217;ll go before the city council next week to discuss its plans. Below is a link to a copy of the staff report that&#8217;s going to the city council (the city staff is endorsing the proposal), along with an attached letter from Google. Note the unusual candor with which Google explains its motives.<br \/>\n&#8220;In our self-interest, we believe that giving more people the ability to access the Internet will drive more traffic to Google and hence more revenue to Google and its partner websites.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconbeat.com\/entries\/google-mv-wifi.pdf\">Proposal (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Beat: As we noted earlier, Google wants to deploy free WiFi in its home town of Mountain View, and it&#8217;ll go before the city council next week to discuss its plans. Below is a link to a copy of the staff report that&#8217;s going to the city council (the city staff is endorsing the [&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":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}