Commercial using of Wi-Fi

Commercial access to services based on Wi-Fi available in places such as Internet cafes, airports and coffee shops around the world (usually these places are called Wi-Fi-cafe), but their coverage can be considered a point in comparison with cellular networks:

- Ozone and OzoneParis France. In September 2003, the beginning of Ozone network deployment OzoneParis through The City of Lights. The ultimate goal - the creation of a centralized network Wi-Fi, fully covering Paris. The basic principle of Ozone Pervasive Network is that it is a network of national scale.

- WiSE Technologies provides commercial access in airports, universities, and independent cafes in the United States;

- T-Mobile provides the network of hotspots for Starbucks in the U.S. and the UK, as well as more than 7,500 hotspots in Germany;


- Pacific Century Cyberworks provides access to Pacific Coffee shops in Hong Kong;

- Columbia Rural Electric Association is trying to expand the network of 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi on an area of ​​9.500 km ², located between the districts of Walla Walla, and Columbia in Washington and Umatilla, Oregon, to the list of other major networks in the U.S. are also included: Boingo, Wayport and iPass;

- Sify, Indian Internet service provider, installed 120 access points in Bangalore, hotels, galleries and government institutions.

- Vex has a large network of hotspots located throughout Brazil. Telefonica Speedy WiFi started to provide their services in a new and growing network that has spread throughout the state of Sao Paulo.

- BT Openzone has many hotspots in the UK, working in McDonald's, and has a roaming agreement with T-Mobile UK and ReadyToSurf. Their customers also have access to hotspots The Cloud.

- Netstop provides access to New Zealand.

- The company Golden Telecom supports urban Wi-Fi networks in Moscow, as well as providing their communication channels for project Yandeks.Wi-Fi.

- The company plans to EarthLink in the third quarter of 2007, completely connect Philadelphia (U.S.) to the wireless Internet. This will be the first city in the U.S. metropolis which will be fully covered by Wi-Fi. The cost will be between 20-22 dollars a month for the connection speed of 1 Mbit / s. For low-income residents of Philadelphia, the prices will be 12-15 dollars a month. At present the center of the city and surrounding areas are already connected. Connecting the remaining areas will be made as you install transmitters.


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