It hopes to lure 40% of tenants in a newly wired building to accept free broadband.

FORBES: Land Grab

Finally, the issue has some precedent--the pending free trade agreement between the U.S. and South Korea (the world's most wired country) includes a provision to encourage the free flow of information, though no censorship issues exist between the two countries.

FORBES: Google's Free Trade Agenda

"Freemium is really a construct of the digital age because there's almost no marginal cost to digital goods, " said Chris Anderson, author of "Free: The Future of a Radical Price, " and editor in chief of Wired magazine.

WSJ: When Freemium Fails

Wired UK was first to report that Samsung's been quietly dishing out free Galaxy S handsets (the European flavor) to a few lucky British Twitter users.

ENGADGET: Samsung dispatching free Galaxy S handsets to iPhone 4 whiners on Twitter?