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Hotspot networks and muni-WiFi meshes in Peru

From a joint company press release (via Santa Barbara Press-News), 21 September:

"Nomadix, Inc.... is working with Telefonica Peru to deploy a web of 'coexisting' Internet HotSpots and municipal meshes...

"Telefonica Peru's Roaming IP [wireless] services will be available in Lima and other key Peruvian provinces, and will also include Wi-Fi hotspots in 68 other countries through its partnership with iPass, a leading mobile broadband roaming provider located in Redwood Shores, California... The hotspots and mesh networks, deployed in airports, hotels, shopping centers, and other public spaces, will make Peru one of the preeminent wireless societies on the planet...

[: 20 September 2006]

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