The effort to provide free WiFi connections for low-income residents of San Francisco is proceeding apace, the city says. Mayor Gavin Newsom and wireless router company Meraki said this week they're adding wireless coverage to 12 low-income housing projects in the Tenderloin neighborhood, CNET News says. Meraki says about 150,000 of the city's 860,000 residents are on its network, and it will be a few more years before the entire city is covered.
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by Mark Stencel, Governing.com
For many local governments, the Wi-Fi gold rush ended last November. That's when Internet service provider Earthlink announced that "significant further investments" in its municipal wireless business did not make sense for its shareholders.
Earthlink's news was no surprise. Earlier, the Atlanta-based company had announced big layoffs and vague plans for reorganizing its municipal broadband group. Since Earthlink was the leading corporate player in the field, its troubles did not bode well for community wireless initiatives, some of which were abruptly put on hold.
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