Silicon Valley Residents To Get FREE Wi-Fi

Free Wi-Fi for 2.4 million Silicon Valley residents will soon arrive via Silicon Valley Metro Connect.  SVMC consists of a variety of members including IBM and Cisco Systems. 38 cities in California’s San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda and Santa Cruz counties will become "unwired" with an 802.11b/g-based Wi-Fi network that will use mesh wireless equipment from Cisco and with IBM doing the design and integration. 

Although it will be up and running very quickly, it will take over a year before all areas are operational.  The original proposal will provide a 1 megabit-per-second data speeds for free.  For those that want faster service, a fee-based service with higher throughput speeds, video streaming and voice over Wi-Fi will be available.

So Silicon Valley has their FREE service, Google launched a free Wi-Fi service in Mountain View so my question is....who will offer it to the rest of us? In fact that question is serious because I believe that we will soon find FREE wireless nation wide.  Well, maybe not soon, but it is coming!

What do you think?