The Chron and the Associated Press are reporting that San Francisco has chosen a joint bid by Google and Earthlink to blanket the city with wifi.
The likely outcome:
- Free, slow-ish wifi access citywide (ad-supported)
- Faster, no-ad wifi citywide (for a nominal fee, perhaps $20/mo.)
- Timeline: According to the Chron article, they could have this up and going by the end of 2006
More thoughts as actual details become available…
(“goofi” hat tip to doc, via miss rogue)