San Francisco Gives its Main Street Free Wi-fi, Eyes Citywide Service

CIO: IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau) — If you want something done, sometimes you just have to do it yourself.

The city and county of San Francisco teamed up with Earthlink and Google nearly a decade ago to build what was planned as a citywide Wi-Fi network, only to see Earthlink retreat from its municipal Wi-Fi business in 2007. The citywide system was never built.

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