"Google wins SF wireless gig"

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/06/google_sf_muni_wifi/>

Who would have guessed?

Google has won the contract to operate San Francisco's municipal
wireless network, in conjunction with Earthlink.

San Francisco's mayor Gavin Newsom has described Wi-Fi as "a basic
human right" - sort of like gay marriage, but for nerds.

It's a two-tier service, with a free low-speed service available at
street level - and if you're lucky, in parts of your apartment - and
a faster version available for a tariff of $20 per month. Google and
Earthlink beat out bids from Razortooth, NextWLAN, and a consortium
including IBM and Cisco, in a final shortlist of six. Incumbent
operators including Cingular had been in the initial longlist of over
20 bids.

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