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.