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Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] homesweethomeMrL 1 points 8 months ago

That's true, which is why the article mentions one of the things googlers are doing is using their phone as a hotspot.

Y'see the phone gets it's internet from the cell tower. It then passes the internet to the laptop via a local (i.e. 2 feet) wifi or bluetooth connection.

That's an entirely different thing than enterprise-wide wifi. And if the building was blocking cell phone signals - well, first of all I'd be impressed, and secondly they would tear it down.