Google's free WiFi network transports nearly 600 gigabytes a day - FierceBroadbandWireless

Google's muni-WiFi network in Mountain View, Calif., reached its third anniversary this month and WiFi vendor Tropos reports that the network now transports close to 600 gigabytes of user data on a daily basis. That number is double the volume from two years ago, and Tropos said the statistics indicate it is one of the most heavily used open networks in the world.

"We continue to experience extremely high demand--both in terms of users and bandwidth," said Karl Garcia at Google, who leads the Google WiFi project. "We've seen the iPhone and other WiFi-enabled handheld devices as significant drivers of the high demand we see. Currently nearly a quarter of all devices that connect to our network are handhelds, compared to almost none when we launched the network," said Garcia...