Yesterday the free muni WiFi network in Portland, Oregon officially launched. The network, created and managed by MetroFi, covers a portion of the downtown area as well as some outlying neighborhoods. MetroFi says it's goal is to cover 95 percent of the city by 2008.
This is certainly a major development in the growth of citywide wireless networks and bodes well for more cities to jump on the bandwagon in 2007.
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1. I've heard about this as though it has actually happened... so when *will* it actually happen? So far, I haven't found wifi, except to hunt down scattered businesses here and there that have their own... *shrug*
Posted at 1:16AM on Nov 17th 2007 by Mary