SF finally joins city-wide Wi-Fi
Friday, November 4th, 2011 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor
Mobile workers in San Francisco can be more mobile.
San Francisco, home to Twitter, Yelp, Salesforce.com and other cloud-based application companies is finally joining the move towards providing city-wide Wi-Fi.
San Francisco to offer free Wi-Fi on Market Street, by James Temple, says that the city has been installing Wi-Fi, but at a block at a time, rather than a larger area. He also says that the question is always: who pays? But it should be free.
“These networks are every bit as central to the information economy as roads were to the industrial one. It’s how we move the products of the day. It’s the basis of the communications that have become vital to our personal and professional lives.”
Other cities have already jumped on the free city Wi-Fi bandwagon, including:
- Mountain View, courtesy of Google, just a bit further south.
- Palo Alto, home to many of those VCs that fund these companies
- London, offering Wi-Fi in some areas for years, now also has a trial by Nokia as well.
- Chicago
- Santa Monica (sigh, shopping and surfing the internet near the surfing)
- Los Angeles is still working on it
- New York city and Brooklyn
Seattle, home of Microsoft- And smaller cities, such as Ocean City, MD, and Grand Haven, MI, the first FULL city-wide deployment.
- And more all over the world, including Luxembourg, Paris, Talinn, Oulu, Bologna, Bangkok, Hong Kong or Singapore.
For more cities, you can check Wikipedia.
And, our Favorite Hotspots articles, will give you some Top 10 lists in these cities.
Visit these San Francisco hotspots on our Top 10 List.
