Will Nationwide Wi-Fi Start in Los Angeles?

Governing: The city of Los Angeles is looking to build a citywide broadband network, and posted a request for information (RFI) on how best to accomplish the task. And by the July 18 deadline, the city had received 34 responses, which came from city departments, neighborhood councils and private companies like IBM, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Time Warner Cable, and Macquarie Capital USA, an Australian-owned company now closing in on a deal to buy the unfinished network started by the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA).

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