{"id":12582,"date":"2016-09-28T08:18:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T07:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=12582"},"modified":"2016-09-28T08:18:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T07:18:28","slug":"google-station-tries-bring-global-public-wifi-networks-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/09\/google-station-tries-bring-global-public-wifi-networks-together.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Station Tries to Bring Global Public WiFi Networks Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> seems to be into almost everything these days and now the operator has decided to enter the market for public <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wifi\">WiFi<\/a> Hotspots by launching a new suit of management tools, which could bring such access points closer together. Mind you, they&#8217;re not the first to do that.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year the Internet technology giant began working with <strong>RailTel<\/strong> and <strong>Indian Railways<\/strong> to roll-out free public Wi-Fi Hotspots at railway stations across India, which was conducted as part of a projected called <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/station.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Station<\/a><\/strong>. At present 52 stations have already been covered and the expectation is that this should reach 100 by the end of 2016 and 300 in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>So far, so normal. However Google Station is about more than just railways and the company has developed a clever suit of tools to help manage and maintain any public <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wifi\">WiFi<\/a> hotspots that agree to partner with its network.<\/p>\n<p>The tools also allow you to get online with their Hotspots by using only a single Login + Password (we assume its a Google Account) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wifi\">WiFi<\/a> owners can optionally monetize their connections, such as via the management of access fees or advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Crucially Google has now decided to take their proposition global and in keeping with that they&#8217;ve gone on the hunt for a broad spectrum of partners. &#8220;<em>If you\u2019re a large venue or organization, network operator, fibre provider, system integrator or infrastructure company, we want to work with you to bring fast Wi-Fi to more locations<\/em>,&#8221; says the company.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you Google are by no means the first to try unifying the global patch-work of public WiFi hotspots. The Wi-Fi Alliance has been trying to do it for years, while others like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipass.com\" target=\"_blank\">iPass<\/a> have had a fair bit more success (i.e. 57 million Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide, in over 120 countries). But platforms like iPass and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Boingo<\/a> are paid solutions, while Google can do &#8220;<em>free<\/em>&#8221; and their established global presence offers another useful attribute.<\/p>\n<p>We can certainly see some appeal in Google&#8217;s approach, although it&#8217;s probably not going to make much of a dent in the United Kingdom where we already have a plethora of well established public WiFi networks on almost every street corner. 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