Thursday, October 22, 2009

Another try at city wifi for Cleveland

It’s been two years since Frank Jackson officially abandoned his first high-profile attempt to create a City-supported wifi network on the ill-fated Philadelphia-EarthLink model. Now he’s quietly giving City wifi another try, this time hoping to pay for it with $15 million in Federal broadband stimulus money.

From the Commerce Department’s Broadband USA database of applications for the first round of Broadband Technology Opportunity Program funds...