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LinkNYC is an infrastructure project providing free Wi-Fi service in New York City.The office of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the plan on November 17, 2014, and the installation of the first kiosks, or "Links," started in late 2015.
Delhi - free Wi-Fi service in Delhi's Khan Market (August 2014), [21] free WiFi service in Delhi's Connaught Place (November 2014), [22] free Wi-Fi service at New Delhi Railway Station (December 2014) [23] Greater Noida — paid, operated by Maksat Technologies (P) Ltd. [citation needed] Kolkata, India - free 4G service by Reliance Jio ...
A free public Wi-Fi access point. Wardriving is the act of searching for Wi-Fi wireless networks as well as cell towers, usually from a moving vehicle, using a laptop or smartphone. Software for wardriving is freely available on the internet. Warbiking, warcycling, warwalking and similar use the same approach but with other modes of transportation.
A final model is a provision of all layers of service, such as in Chaska, Minnesota, where the city has built and operated a Wi-Fi Internet network that provides email and web hosting applications. These different models involve different public-private partnership arrangements, and varying levels of opportunity for private sector competition.
According to statista.com, in the year 2022, there are approximately 550 million free Wi-Fi hotspots around the world. [14] The U.S. NSA warns against connecting to free public Wi-Fi. [15] Free hotspots operate in two ways: Using an open public network is the easiest way to create a free hotspot. All that is needed is a Wi-Fi router.
Wi-Fi hotspots, unsecured and secured, have been recorded to some degree with GPS-coordinates. Some sites host searchable databases or maps of the locations of user-submitted access points. The activity of finding and mapping locations has also been crowdsourced by many smartphone apps.
A map of Wi-Fi nodes in the world collected by the WiGLE project, 2019. WiGLE (Wireless Geographic Logging Engine) is a website for collecting information about the different wireless hotspots around the world.
Skyhook was founded in 2003 by Ted Morgan and Michael Shean. [1] Skyhook's database was initially gathered through wardriving, [2] when the company sent teams of drivers around the United States, Canada, Western Europe, and selected Asian countries to map out Wi-Fi hotspots.