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Our Santiago correspondent (and hey, just imagine how many other global news organisations have one of those... not boasting or anything...) Jane Chambers gave us a suprising report about the mountain village of Salamanca, 300km from the capital, the first village in South America with free WiFi.

It's made a big difference to the life of the villagers already and the hope is it will generate a more prosperous future.

There are lots of places in the developed world with wireless Internet connections, but they don't usually work together.

I have a very clever telephone that also gives me WiFi broadband - but I would have to sign up to several different expensive accounts to use it as I move around London.

And outside London it would be even harder to connect.

I can use it on my home wireless connection - but that's where I've got my computer so why would I?

There's a long way to go before what is obviously a technology with great potential actually delivers.

I would ask for you comments - but the comments software isn't working on this blog at the moment. The Â鶹Éç's finest minds are on the case. But sorry - I will ask you about your own WiFi successes and failures when that's fixed.

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