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All the routers will also be on private property, not public property, and thus avoid the politics of involving the city government. Whether or not Meraki can prove that local ads will bring in enough money to cover its costs, though, is a different question. Meraki will show single-line text ads from Google that are localized as well as contextual ads from Yelp. Even Meraki CEO Biswas is not sure there is a big enough inventory of local ads to support an ad-driven model, but he sees the San Francisco deployment more as a showcase and as a test bed.

He is not being glib. But citywide access, which former Mayor Gavin Newsom proposed in , has yet to come to fruition.

A proposed deal between the city, Earthlink and Google back then collapsed amid political bickering between the mayor and the Board of Supervisors and concerns over the terms of the contract. Despite being a hub for tech companies -and City Hall's location 35 miles from Google headquarters - San Francisco has been a surprisingly slow adopter in some ways. For example, many older recreation facilities still use dial-up connections, said Recreation and Park Director Phil Ginsburg. We want to make it easier for people to spend more time in parks and enjoy them.

This is a great equalizer. Veronica Bell , a senior manager for public policy and government relations at Google, said the company is "proud to provide free Wi-Fi in San Francisco, a city where thousands of its employees work and live.

Farrell said he approached Google's government relations team more than two years ago to reopen discussions about free Wi-Fi. He has a personal relationship with a member of that team, he said. Bernal Heights Recreation Center 4. Chinese Recreation Center 6.

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