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Google Partners with Earthlink in Municipal Wi-Fi

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the many-hands-make-light-work dept.

tsalaroth writes "lightreading.com has an interesting article regarding the San Francisco Wi-Fi bids. Apparently, Google and Earthlink bid separately for building the municiple Wi-Fi, but have now joined forces. From the article: 'In this proposal, Google will provide a free WiFi service citywide and EarthLink will serve as the premium service provider.'"

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  1. Re:Mr. Bush et al aren't gonna like this by Marko+DeBeeste · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Point well taken, but now with a laptop and a faked MAC address, all those info-terrorists will proliferate like flies.

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    Faith: n. -- That human impulse that drives them to steal appliances when the power goes out
  2. Re:This is shaping up to be fun to watch... by WebCrapper · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What could possibly go wrong from here?

    Um - lots...

    Earthlink is known for outsourcing. In fact, ALL of their technical support and customer service is outsourced to various parts of the world. The only things thats really left are a few managers, the NOC team and a few other choice depts like Training. I'm really suprised they didn't at least talk to their ex-earthlink employees about this.

    I really don't know what the hell Google was thinking. This is pretty much Good and Bad partnering together to create the Ugly.