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San Francisco Net to Go Public?
By Larry Hendrick | September 29, 2006
It now appears that all is not perfect in the San Francisco municipal wi-fi project. This report from Unstrung looks at some of the issues that are causing problems and how the city is looking to take over the project in-house.
Google says the city isn’t being up-front with the negotiations. Oh well, time will tell.
Unstrung - WLANs/WiFi/802.11 - SF Net to Go Public? - Wireless Networking News Analysis
Chris Sacca, the Google executive heading the search giant’s part of the San Francisco project, derided the effort in interviews last week, saying the process is not moving forward as planned. Negotiations between the two companies and the city for a final contract are ongoing. (See Imbroglio by the Bay.)
San Francisco has joined a list of cities from Chaska, Minn. to St. Cloud, Fla. where ambitious WiFi projects have run into unforeseen obstacles. The agreement between EarthLink, Google, and the city was announced with great fanfare earlier this year by Mayor Gavin Newsom’s office, with the companies portraying the network as a testbed for future wireless services blanketing American cities and the city trumpeting itself as a pioneer in ubiquitous broadband technologies.