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Boston has unveiled plans to build a city-wide wireless Internet network to serve its 590,000 residents, but its plan is, in an important way, different than similar projects that have been proposed by cities including Cambridge and San Francisco...
Under Boston’s plan, the city will build 2,250 “mesh access points” to blanket the 49-square-mile city with wireless Internet. Boston has access to 467 city buildings, 9,000 light poles, 824 signal lights, and 1,735 fire department call boxes on which to mount the points...
...timetable has been set for the project. There are currently no major municipal wireless projects completed...
...formal announcement of the municipal wireless project comes after Boston’s Wireless Task Force, which was formed on Feb. 8 to study the creation of a city-wide network, issued a report advocating a non-profit approach...
...days before the Boston task force convened in February, Cambridge announced that it had been working for a year with Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to provide wireless connections free-of-charge...