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The study found that Austin is home to 91 wireless companies, over half of which are pure wireless ventures. Nearly half of the wireless companies, 43 percent, are involved with Wi-Fi. Most are small, with 80 percent employing 50 people or less. Through 2008, the researchers predict that the number of workers in wireless firms in Austin will grow an average of almost 19 percent.

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Rich MacKinnon, founder of Less Networks, did some math and notes that 36 percent of Austin’s 235 hot spots are free to use while only 4 percent of New York’s 770 sites are free.

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