Free Wifi in Midtown Manhattan, NYC
Apparently CBS is going to be providing absolutely free wifi access for a large swath of midtown which thrills and tickles me, except I don’t work in midtown anymore. Still, the hordes of Apple iPhone toting yuppies will be delighted to read Valleywag from Times Square. The so-called CBS Mobile Zone will fall inside this perimeter:
Citi and Salesgenie.com are sponsoring the MTA / CBS venture, which will support itself through a default ad-supported homepage featuring content from Tropos, BIG, Fon, Ning, Goowy, Veoh, Yelp, 1020, Aptilo and Can-Do Entertainment.
I’m not sure how well this will fly, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction. I feel like all the US should be a wifi mesh network, but it’s not. Why can’t cell phones, for example, bond with each other to create local peering and routing? We could get global connectivity out of these kind of schemes…
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i think that area that is covered by this program needs to be taken into consideration because below times square there is many people that needs the free access.