City Wide Wi-Fi in San Francisco?

Posted on | November 27, 2006 | No Comments

It looks like that San Francisco will be the next city to garner a massive Wi-Fi network. Hopefully it will be implemented soon since I visit downtown San Francisco from time to time. It will be really nice to have Internet access wherever you go.

A showdown may be on the horizon between The City’s legislative body and the mayor over who should own a free, public Internet service that all agree San Francisco should implement.

At a meeting of the Local Agency Formation Commission on Friday, Supervisors Jake McGoldrick and Ross Mirkarimi indicated that the Board of Supervisors may soon vote to make San Francisco’s proposed public Internet service the property of The City.

The move would fly in the face of efforts by Mayor Gavin Newsom’s office to contract with Google and Earthlink to create a free wireless Internet, or Wi-Fi, service citywide.

Source: Examiner.com