SAN FRANCISCO: Google has renamed its wireless network Project Fi, which is now called Google Fi, while making it available for a wide range of Android devices as well as for some iPhones in the United States.
Google Fi is now available for select models of Huawei, LG, Motorola, Samsung, Essential, Nokia, OnePlus, Xiaomi, HTC, Google and Apple.
Launched in 2015, Project Fi aimed to make the wireless experience fast, simple and fair to users. It provided features at no additional cost, such as international data coverage in 170 countries and territories, spam protection, and data-only SIM cards for other users' devices. .
It has also introduced a feature called Bill Protection – which gives users the ability to use unlimited data when they need it, but only pay for what they use.
"Whatever phone you use with Fi, you'll benefit from excellent Fi features, such as reliable coverage, simple group plans, and high-speed international data coverage for the same rates as at home, "said Simon Arscott, director of Project Fi at Google, wrote in a blog post.
"Plus, as always with Fi, there is no contract and no hidden fees," Arscott said, adding that some features of the package would depend on the Android or iOS device being used.
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Large bigwigs projects with deep pockets
March 12, 2018
With a net worth of $ 112 billion, the world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, is building a 500-foot tall clock in a mountain in western Texas. The watch will tick once a year – for the next 10,000 years. A look at the big projects that other bigwigs with deep pockets have undertaken.
Lakshmi Mittal
March 12, 2018
The orbit of ArcelorMittal
Cost: £ 22.7 million (approximately $ 31.5 million)
Lakshmi Mittal, CEO of ArcelorMittal, has commissioned ArcelorMittal Orbit, symbol and legacy of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London. Consisting of 265 double-decker steel buses, the Orbit has 35,000 bolts and offers a spectacular 20-mile view of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and London. Designed by Sir Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond, the Orbit also has the distinction of being the tallest sculpture in the UK.
Carlos Slim
March 12, 2018
Museo Soumaya
Cost: $ 70 million
Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim founded the Museo Soumaya, a civic gift offered in Mexico City. The museum, which owes its name to the deceased wife Soumaya, who died in 1999, opened on March 28, 2011. The museum contains more than 66,000 works of art spanning several centuries. It has been reported that the total value of works of art in the museum is around $ 700 million and that it costs $ 70 million to build.
George P Mitchell
March 12, 2018
Giant telescope of Magellan
Cost: $ 1 billion (estimated)
George P Mitchell, billionaire of the oil industry in Texas, left (with his wife Cynthia) was a renowned philanthropist. He is credited with innovative shale drilling techniques. In 2011, he donated $ 25 million for the construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), under construction in the Atacama Desert in Chile, and is expected to be completed by 2024. In the long run, the telescope will become the largest optical observatory in the world. world and have a resolution power 10 times greater than that of the Hubble Space Telescope, one of the largest space telescopes ever built.
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Eric and Wendy Schmidt
March 12, 2018
Schmidt Ocean Institute
Cost: $ 60 million
The Schmidt Ocean Institute is a non-profit foundation founded in 2009 by Eric Schmidt, former president of Google (left). The couple would have decided to create the institute after Wendy's first scuba diving in 2009 in the Caribbean Grenadines. The couple donated $ 100 million for the creation of the institute, which uses a 272 meter long vessel to carry out its mission of "advancing the frontiers of research and development". 39, ocean exploration.
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