1 STEP FORWARD, 2 STEPS BACK FOR SF-CITYWIDE WI-FI
[SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle, AUTHOR: Wyatt Buchanan]
Free wireless Internet access for San Francisco is experiencing technical
difficulties. Just last week, a proposed contract negotiated by the Newsom
administration with EarthLink picked up key backing from Board of Supervisors
President Aaron Peskin, who said that with changes to speed up the service and
make it more reliable, he could support the deal. But on Wednesday, Peskin and
other supervisors raised more concerns at a City Hall hearing over whether the
agreement adequately protects the privacy of users and whether it could turn
into a monopoly giveaway of a public resource. To relieve concerns about an
EarthLink Wi-Fi monopoly, Peskin proposed cutting the term of the contract in
half, from 16 years to eight years. He also wants the contract to include an
option for the city to buy the network at the end of the eight-year term.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/12/BAG61QV3GO1.DTL&type=politics
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