Buenos Aires Hotspots

According to Cellular-news.com, which reports on a story by Infobae that quotes consultancy Marco Consultora (we're really talking third-hard info here), Buenos Aires had 251 Wi-Fi hotspots at the end of February, more than four times the 62 hotspots registered at end-of 2004. The accuracy of this aside (Because, really, how can you know? Do you count every person who lets his neighbors share his unprotected WiFi connection?), what's interesting is how much this number has grown, and how B.A. compares to other cities. WiFi directory AnchorFree says the top cities for wireless are San Francisco, with 449 free hotspots, Chicago (with 234) and Moscow (with 197). Comparing those numbers to B.A. is like apples to oranges (or, more like apples to kangaroos), but it suggests that B.A. may be further along the tech curve than you might have thought.