Worries about who would actually use wireless networks seem unfounded.
The use of wireless networks to conduct confidential business is now standard practice.
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All Google has said is that it favors an open system that would offer consumers the freedom to use whatever wireless networks, devices and services they choose, at competitive prices.
Google has also funded and conducted several small-scale trials, many of them public, involving wireless networks that use TV broadcast airwaves in the U.S. and beyond.
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They formed a University of Utah spinoff company, Xandem Technology LLC, which is commercializing the wireless networks for use as motion detectors for burglar alarm systems, to help police locate hostages and even to alert out-of-town, vacationing parents if a crowd of teenagers is partying at their home during their absence.
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Then, just as an Internet user can hook any device they want up to their Internet connection, users will be able to use all sorts of devices on wireless networks.
But in November 2006, Jennifer Granick, a cyber-law attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, won an exemption that makes it legal for users to break such locks to enable use of their phones on competing wireless networks.
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 was passed before the Internet and other electronic tools like e-mail, social networks and wireless phone networks had been invented or come into common use, the coalition of Internet companies and privacy advocacy groups said Tuesday.
It runs two wireless networks, one for public use and another for airport operations.
Over the past five years, telecom operators have spent tens of billions of dollars building out their wireless networks to handle the rise in smartphone use.
Designed for stroke patients and those suffering from brain or spinal cord injuries, these so-called medical micropower networks (MMN) use a set of implanted electrodes and a wearable wireless controller to stimulate the muscles of a paralyzed user.
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Its wireless networks of chips, sensors and cameras turn ordinary structures into smart buildings that use less energy and are easier to maintain.
At the same time our use of the cloud for access to content could well choke the available bandwidth on wired and wireless networks.
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Cities who decide to launch free wireless networks need to make sure they adequately promote the service, explain how to use it, and need to know in advance how people or businesses want to get online and help promote the project.
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