Saturday, February 24, 2007

Free wireless broadband access to be introduced in California's Silicon Valley

NTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

Silicon Valley Metro Connect, a collaboration of wireless service provider Azulstar Networks; Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO), a provider of networking for the Internet; information technology company IBM (NYSE:IBM); and SeaKay Inc, is to create a broadband wireless Internet access network in California's Silicon Valley, in the US.

According to IBM, apart from providing free wireless access to the public the network will also be able to support a range of uses by residential, small business, public sector and commercial users. Upon completion the network will span 42 municipalities and almost 1,500 square miles.

No financial details were disclosed

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