Monday, July 31, 2006

Nonprofit May Run Boston Wi-Fi Network

An AP newswire article by Mark Jewell, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

The city is considering an unusual approach to creating a citywide, low-cost wireless Internet network: putting a nonprofit organization, rather than a private service provider, in charge of building and running the system.

A task force on Monday recommended that Mayor Thomas Menino assign an as-yet unidentified nonprofit to raise the $16 million to $20 million in private money that the city estimates it will need to build and begin running the Wi-Fi network.

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