Google, which will one day roll out national wifi, said yesterday that it will not roll out national wifi.

The announcement was made as Google opened its Mountain View wifi to anyone with a free Google account. The next step for Google is San Francisco, where the company is working out a deal with the city to provide free wifi while Earthlink provides paid wifi.

Mountain View now becomes a testing ground for the effect all experts fear: With wifi everywhere and cafes full of day-laborers on laptops, will it become really damn annoying to try to just hang out in a coffeeshop?

Google Says It Has No Plans for National Wi-Fi Service [NYT]
Google launches WiFi Network in Mountain View [GigaOM]

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