Apologies for the vagueness but this occurred months ago and I didn't copy the details.
While on the road a earlier this year I hooked up through an 802.11 access point. The splash screen said something like "this free internet access is courtesy of Google".
This was at a regular hotel or store somewhere between Ill. and New York... (apologies again for the non specificity). In other words, it wasn't in any of the communities where Google has set up an area wide network.
I tried searching, via Google of course, for any info on this type of offer. Alas, way, way, too many other wifi pages came up for me to even think of finding it.
Anyone have any further info? Thanks.
Note that this is NOT related to Google's fiber optic-via-the-sewers system. That one only applied to a handful of municipalities where there was, natch, a sewer system. [a]
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