Google is boosting internet access in Nigeria’s biggest cities with free public wifi

Google is boosting internet access in Nigeria’s biggest cities with free public wifi

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Google Station, the web giant’s public wifi service, has gone live in Nigeria.

As it has done in four other countries—India, Indonesia, Mexico and Thailand—where the service has been launched, Google will partner with local service providers for infrastructure and locations while it offers a cloud-based platform and devices to provide and manage hot-spots. Google Station locations will include high footfall areas such as malls, airports and schools. Already live in four locations in Lagos, the service will be expanded to 200 locations across five additional Nigerian cities—Port Harcourt, Abuja, Kaduna, Enugu, Ibadan—by the end of 2019.