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View Full Version : San Francisco tops in US wireless Internet spots while Seoul first worldwide


soulxtc
January 24th, 2006, 09:11 PM
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - San Francisco has the most wireless Internet "hot spots" in the United States while Seoul topped the list worldwide, an Internet directory showed.

There are 801 "wi-fi" or wireless fidelity points in San Francisco where people with laptop computers could get broadband connections to the Internet, according to JiWire online hot-spot directory based in South San Francisco.

While tops in the United States, San Francisco ranked fifth in the world behind Paris, London, Tokyo and Seoul.

JiWire listed 2,056 wi-fi spots in Seoul and 1,802 in Tokyo. The directory had 1,627 hot spots in London and 950 in Paris.

New York City came in second in the United States with 643 hot spots and Chicago ranked third with 501.

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Krell
January 31st, 2006, 09:19 PM
Not S&T material

moneoa
January 31st, 2006, 09:26 PM
Well this is technology you could argue....though I willingly admit I am not sure what the other articles you posted in have to do with S&T either
(underwater explosions, plane and bush)

Krell
January 31st, 2006, 09:30 PM
All these threads are boring the pants off, jr high schoolers wouldnt be interested.

Whats next - Weekend Sale at Radio Shack?


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mountain_rage
January 31st, 2006, 09:31 PM
All over the place free broadband is showing up and somehow isp's think they can start a two teired system where you have to pay to use p2p, or to play online with your games any high bandwith using applications they want to charge extra to use.