Google Announces Free WiFi For Lenoir

Lenoir Mayor David Barlow announced Tuesday that Google has provided a WiFi network that will allow residents and visitors to connect to the Internet free of charge.

As the mayor made the announcement, students from William Lenoir Middle School were already on the Web wirelessly, some doing research or working on papers.

Principal Dr. Pete Yount said, “We have students producing PowerPoint presentations, those type of things for their classes all the time, multimedia all the time. We’re doing a lot of it.”

Google, which opened a data center in Lenoir in 2008, hopes the network will help other business go wireless, as well.