Google shld change to: Gobble--WiFi Bid for SF

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Google's WiFi Bid for San Francisco

By Chris Nolan, AlterNet. Posted October 27, 2005.

Google's deep interest in providing free wireless Internet access for San Francisco combines business and politics


With its bid to provide all of San Francisco with free wireless Internet access, Google -- the "search engine" company that has grown up into so much more -- has changed the conversation about what it means to "wire" a city.

Google isn't the only bidder in the contest to provide San Francisco with free Internet access. In fact, the company got its proposal in just under the deadline. But the filing was proceeding by weeks of rumors in the technology press about Google's plans to provide wireless access for some city, somewhere.

In San Francisco, at least four companies are vying for the job of blanketing the city with free wireless access, among them Comcast, the city's cable service; SBC, its local phone company; and Earthlink, the Internet service provider that won the bid to provide free city-backed WiFi in Philadelphia. The city is expected to select a winner by the end of the year and "construction" -- putting up access points around San Francisco's hills and valleys -- should start early next year.