A slew of high-tech giants are betting that a tiny Finnish software company can turn the wireless Web into a reality. Gulls screech over arabian-ranta, a bleak square mile industrial site flush against Helsinki's Bay of Finland. In a few years the birds will have plenty of company: billions of bits of data crisscrossing in a dense highspeed wireless network. On this lot the Finnish government, the city and local landlords plan to sink $1 billion into a new neighborhood, the Helsinki Virtual Village, where every business and citizen will share a tetherless link.
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