According to the Mercury News, city officials said Tuesday that Google and EarthLink have teamed up to submit a proposal to create a city-wide wireless Internet network for San Francisco.
The bid was one of six San Francisco city officials said they received Tuesday evening. Other proposals were submitted by MetroFi, Communication Bridge Global, NextWLAN, Razortooth Communications and SF Metro Connect, which is an alliance of SeaKay, Cisco Systems and IBM. City officials did not release any details of the actual proposals or make them available Tuesday. They said a panel will review the bids and make recommendations by early April…The city will post information about the bidders at www.sfgov.org/site/techconnect.
Given that Earthlink has already secured two major muni-WiFi projects, in Philadelphia and Anaheim, it’s teaming with Google should make for an especially strong contender for the San Francisco project. And it will be particularly interesting to see the business model proposed by the two companies which, up to this point, had been proposing notably different models.
Mitch Shapiro at 12:12 AM|Comments(0)
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