TechHive: San Francisco gives its main street free Wi-Fi, eyes citywide service

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San Francisco gives its main street free Wi-Fi, eyes citywide service Dec 16th 2013, 19:00, by Stephen Lawson 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. Now San Francisco is taking another shot at that goal and is going it alone, at least for now. On Monday, the city will turn on free outdoor Wi-Fi along Market Street, the city's main drag, all the way from the central Castro District down to where the street meets San Francisco Bay. On Monday morning, a splash screen appearing on the network read, "Welcome! Enjoy This Free Service. Mayor Edwin M. Lee." The network will be free, won't carry ads, and won't require users to sign in. Unlike the failed Earthlink system, it won't be offered as a home broadband service and will be strictly an outdoor network. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: id-2080820-marketdntn1mod-100160525-small.jpg

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