more on S.F. stalling Wi-Fi plans, Google executive charges (why are they surprised djf)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Pittsburgh?


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From: "A.Lizard" <alizard () ecis com>
Date: September 23, 2006 1:53:02 PM GMT+02:00
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: S.F. stalling Wi-Fi plans, Google executive charges (why  
are they surprised djf)

At 04:08 AM 9/23/06, you wrote:
Perhaps it's time for Google to find a smarter city or county  
government to do business with and bail out of SF. I doubt they'd  
even have to go out of the San Francisco Bay Area to find one.

A.Lizard

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> Date:    September 16, 2006 2:52:47 PM GMT+02:00
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> S.F. stalling Wi-Fi plans, Google executive charges
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> ·         Verne Kopytoff, Chronicle Staff Writer
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> Saturday, September 16, 2006
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> An executive for Google Inc. says San Francisco’s plan to offer free
> wireless Internet access to residents is being delayed by a slow-
> moving city bureaucracy five months after the company won a high-
> profile contract for the project alongside partner EarthLink Inc.  In
> an interview with The Chronicle, Chris Sacca, who leads Google’s
> special projects, voiced frustration with what he called the city’s
> slow negotiating style. Sacca said that talks to come up with a
> final  contract have advanced little since they started and that
> officials  have made unreasonable demands, including a request for
> free  computers and a share in revenues.
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> “Every meeting is like the first,” he said.

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