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Long Beach, Calif. installs free wireless
Reuters
January 7, 2003, 4:20 AM PT

The surf's up in downtown Long Beach, California, a seaside city in Southern California that has installed a free public high-speed wireless Internet network to help attract visitors.

Web surfers in the cafes along the four blocks of the city's Pine Avenue thoroughfare, within walking distance of the local convention center, can now log on free to a wireless WiFi network set up by the city and a group of technology companies, the city said on Monday. --Reuters



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