
Wow- the city of Toronto is planning to make it so that for most places in and around of the city, it will be possible for people to have a connection to the internet. Wireless signal everywhere! Can you imagine having internet wherever you are in the city-- on the park bench, at a bus stop or even while waiting in line at the store...WiFi-- apparently coming to Tdot soon.
"Toronto Hydro Corp. is expected to announce plans to bring "municipal Wireless-Fidelity" (WiFi for short) to Toronto. It's a mesh of radio signals that can blanket an entire city, giving subscribers wireless Internet access virtually anywhere."
"WiFi receiving and transmitting units will be mounted on items of urban furniture, like street lamps or pay phones. They'll pick up radio waves carrying the Internet and pass them on from street lamp to street lamp. The waves will course up and down every street in the city, through parks, schoolyards, markets and pool halls. Subscribers will surf the Internet on a park bench or in a shopping mall."
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