The Wireless Weblog

TG Daily's Humphrey Cheung reports today that Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa "has announced a wireless initiative that would partner the city up with a private provider and give Wi-Fi by 2009."

Bidding starts this fall.

"Los Angeles already has limited Wi-Fi in downtown Pershing Square and in Van Nuys, but this would be the first serious attempt to completely blanket LA's 498 Square miles," Cheung writes. "Culver City, a bordering city in the Westside, already has free wireless in the downtown restaurant and business district."

More here from the LA Times … more here from the LA Daily News … and more here from MuniWireless.

• EarthLink and GCi Team to Sell Muni Wi-Fi Access
• Mexico City to Get Muni Wi-Fi from ZTE
• Azaire's Flexible FMC Solution: Too Early to Market?
• Das Reise-Weblog: Reise Los Angeles - Urlaub Los Angeles
• Fivefold Increase in Remote Internet Access via Wi-Fi in 2005
• Digital Music - The Future: Culver City is Protected
• City of London Gets Free Wi-Fi
• EarthLink Reverses Direction on Muni Wi-Fi
• California Wi-Fi
• New Orleans' Free Wi-Fi Network To Be Dismantled
• P2P File Sharing: Culver City is Protected
• Anaheim Students to Compete for Wi-Fi
• Tiny RFID Tags Used to Track Wasps' Behavior
• Culver City Municipal Wi-Fi Gets Filtered for P2P and Porn
• More Free Wi-Fi in LA (Who Knew There Was Free Wi-Fi in LA?)
• The End of Muni Wi-Fi?