[RTC List] Broadband Wi-Fi access - tale of two Cities - SFO & PDX

[Sean McLaughlin]

  SFO and PDX Wi-Fi updates:

  DIFFERENT SORT OF FREE WI-FI STARTS TO THRIVE
  [SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle, AUTHOR: Heather Knight]
  San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that citywide wireless
  Internet access is slowly becoming a reality despite political
  infighting - and that 144,000 residents will be surfing the Web for
  free by the end of the year at no cost to the city. Standing on the
  rooftop of a Mission District single-room-occupancy hotel, Newsom
  pointed to a "repeater antenna" - which looks like an oversized, white
  computer mouse - and said the devices someday will blanket the city
  with free Wi-Fi. The devices are made by a South of Market company
  named Meraki, and hundreds now dot the rooftops and balconies of
  private residences, nonprofit hotels and public housing projects. 
  Meraki is donating the devices plus free Internet access to any San
  Francisco resident who wants them. Neighbors within a block's radius
  of the device can tap into the Internet for free, too. Blanketing the
  city is expected to require 15,000 devices. The company, founded two
  years ago, is using San Francisco as a testing ground to bolster its
  name and reputation so it can sell more devices elsewhere.
  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/11/MN6N117KJU.DTL&tsp=1



  Web access, if you can pay

The failure of Portland's free Wi-Fi network will cut the cord for many


http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1213428303307240.xml&coll=7 
<http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1213428303307240.xml&coll=7>


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Sean McLaughlin
Executive Director
Access Humboldt
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