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Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday February 25, 2006 @12:42PM 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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Re:Mr. Bush et al aren't gonna like this (Score:2, Interesting)

by Marko DeBeeste ( 761376 ) writes: on Saturday February 25, 2006 @01:17PM (#14800576)

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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Re:This is shaping up to be fun to watch... (Score:3, Interesting)

by WebCrapper ( 667046 ) writes: on Saturday February 25, 2006 @01:48PM (#14800691)

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.

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