{"id":1258,"date":"2020-02-18T11:32:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T11:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-769565-4481101.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2020-12-22T12:12:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T12:12:21","slug":"google-will-stop-giving-free-wifi-in-india-and-other-parts-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/google-will-stop-giving-free-wifi-in-india-and-other-parts-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Google will stop giving free WiFi in India and other parts of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virtually 2 years ago\u00a0Google Station arrived in India, a large G project with which it sought to offer free and high-speed WiFi to users in Mexico.\u00a0For this, it began its deployment in several public squares in our country, and during its first year of life, the number of places where fast and secure free WiFi was offered was increasing.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/02\/17\/google-ends-its-free-wi-fi-program-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"TechCrunch reports (opens in a new tab)\">TechCrunch reports<\/a>\u00a0that the service will be closed this year, so Google will stop offering this service in Mexico, India, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia, which are the markets where such service is currently offered. service.<\/p>\n<p>The source mentions that Google explained that they made the decision to close Station because\u00a0<strong>it was becoming difficult to turn this business into something profitable.\u00a0<\/strong>This may be due to the fact that data plans have become cheaper in countries such as Mexico or India because even in our market you can find unlimited data plans from 300 pesos per month.<\/p>\n<p>This would make Google&#8217;s free Wi-Fi less necessary, so having fewer users willing to connect to a public Wi-Fi network would probably have less advertising revenue, which is Google&#8217;s main business.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the company\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.co.za\/google-backs-out-free-wifi-google-station-partnership-with-think-wifi-in-south-africa-2020-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"confirmed to Business Insider (opens in a new tab)\">confirmed to Business Insider<\/a>\u00a0that it will transfer the Station project to other companies in different markets;\u00a0For example, in the case of South Africa, it will be Think WiFi that will take care of everything since the Mountain View company considers these to be useful resources for the community, so it plans to continue using them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtually 2 years ago\u00a0Google Station arrived in India, a large G project with which it sought to offer free and high-speed WiFi to users in Mexico.\u00a0For this, it began its deployment in several public squares in our country, and during its first year of life, the number of places where fast and secure free WiFi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3323],"tags":[24,399],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Google-free-WiFi.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}