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Friday, September 01, 2006

Golden Gate Lark

Should San Franciscans trust Google and their mayor to improvise the city's Wi-Fi network?

By Mark Williams

Alongside freedom of religion and protection against cruel and unusual punishment, Internet access through a municipal Wi-Fi network is now to be reckoned a basic human right. Or so says San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, who announced a free wireless-access project called TechConnect in August 2005.

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