Santa Monica seeks to expand WiFi through broadband stimulus funds

Officials in Santa Monica, Calif., are seeking about $1 million in federal broadband stimulus grant money to expand their free service throughout the Los Angeles area city and to connect more than 200 ISPs to affordable broadband options.

According to Jory Wolf, CIO of Santa Monica’s information systems department, the key cost driver and prohibitive factor in secure advanced broadband adoption continues to be the construction costs to build out infrastructure to the end user...