The bid is competing against five other teams including; Communication Bridge Global; NextWLAN; Razortooth Communications LLP; MetroFi and SF Metro Connect, a partnership that includes SeaKay, Cisco Systems Inc.and IBM Corp.
MetroFi and Om Malik posts over on Gigaom that Google has been shortlisted as one of the five finalists for the free San Fransciso Wi-Fi service that the sitting hopes to have up and running in 2006. I posted a few months ago that 17 companies...
Google has offered to build the network for free, as has fellow Mountain View company MetroFi. If you're interested in learning more about Google's plan (one of 17) for providing free Wi-Fi access throughout San Francisco, the San Jose Mercury News...
