How Google Station works

[Jamie McKane]

How Google Station works

Think WiFi and Google recently announced that they would partner to provide free Wi-Fi to South Africa through the Google Station programme.

While the project will first be implemented in certain parts of the Western Cape with poor connectivity, the end goal is to extend connectivity to the entirety of South Africa.

 

[MrGray]

Those solar panels and battery better be very well secured.

 

[dualmeister]

Those solar panels and battery better be very well secured.

If it is still there.

 

[Rickster]

200kbps?

Typo?

 

[Totempole]

200kbps?

Typo?

Don't think so. Sounds about right to be barely usable. That would be around 25KB/s

 

[Johnatan56]

200kbps?

Typo?

Probably very heavy QoS to prevent abuse since they managed faster for the speedtest and the adds probably ran faster as well.

 

[MrGray]

Those solar panels and battery better be very well secured.

Lol, I could have saved them the trouble.

Google is quitting its free Wi-Fi business three months after SA launch

Just three months after Google launched its free public Wi-Fi initiative, known as Google Station, in South Africa, the Internet giant is backing out of the business worldwide.

techcentral.co.za