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The World's Largest Wi-Fi Hot Spot Is Not In A City

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
8 September 2004 - 6:00am

The world's largest network is 10 times larger that Philadelphia's proposed city-wide network and covers 1,500 square miles of wheat fields.

Walla Walla County is better known for wheat fields than Wi-Fi. But a small community-owned utility in this agriculture-dependent region has constructed one of the largest wireless Internet networks in rural America, rolling out high-speed connections across about 1,500 square miles...[The] Wi-Fi hot spot is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.

Full Story: Rolling wheat fields are also Wi-Fi country
Source: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 7, 2004
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