Excellent! This was my instantaneous reaction when I read this news item. An excerpt:
The King County Metro Transit tries out Wi-Fi on a few routes: Using the locally made Junxion Box, which relays data between a Wi-Fi gateway and a 2.5G or 3G cellular network, Metro Transit will equip all buses along two long routes with Internet access—29 buses in all by mid-October. The service will be free during trials which will last five months and run on a route from south Seattle to north Seattle and another between the university neighborhood and Federal Way, a southern suburb.
I hardly took a bus in Seattle when I used to be there but this news still excited me. This is exactly the kind of news I miss in India. Forget the buses (I don’t think that we even need our buses to be Wi-Fi enabled), we don’t even have the culture of providing Wi-Fi connections in the Cafe / malls. How much I think about just spending an hour every other day at a cafe after dinner - only if they had internet connectivity allowing me to work outside the office and home.
Gurgaon - are the cafe owners listening?
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September 10, 2005 at 12:01 pm
Well I can’t say about Gurgaon, but here in Banaglore I have atleast seen the “WiFi enabled” poster outside a couple of Baristas. But surely WiFi needs to grow.
Well any idea baout WiFi access @ airports in India — Delhi or elsewhere. Those are the places where people waste a lot of time.
September 11, 2005 at 9:20 pm
I don’t think that the airports have WiFi access - I haven’t seen any. I have to resort to always using my phone at these places to make the maximum use of my time.
Aayush - I am sure that there a lot many people who will appreciate once our airports provide it - even at a cost.
September 12, 2005 at 1:37 pm
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September 14, 2005 at 3:19 pm
Ashish, Even if we have wifi in the aiport like the Chennai one does and as you noted in your comment on my blog.
We need providers who can sell some kind of prepaid wifi cards and have enough coverage so that people do go out a buy time. I would not buy wifi time if it is avbl only in the airport…
Also I think we still do not have the concept of free wifi at cafes etc like Starbucks. The wifi in coffee day or barista are AFAIK need to be paid for, which kind of takes away half the fun..:-)