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Thousands of you have signed our petition in support of free WiFi for San Francisco and now more than ever, we need your help to make this ambitious proposal a reality. We have just learned that the Board of Supervisors, led by Chris Daly, has called a special committee hearing for Monday (May 14th) at 2PM where they may try to kill our free WiFi plan for San Francisco, with little public notice.
For months, Daly has dragged his feet, refusing even to schedule a hearing on the proposed Google-Earthlink contract. While Daly has stalled, thousands of San Franciscans have been shut out. According to a recent survey by the City’s Controller, "the ‘digital divide’ seems to be growing. In other words, those least likely to have access to the Internet at home are even less likely to have it now than they were nearly 10 years ago when the City first asked these questions."
Mayor Newsom’s WiFi plan will help address these problems and make the information age accessible to all San Franciscans. We are asking you to Act Locally today. Call or email your supervisor. Better yet - join us this Monday for a rally on the steps of City Hall at 1PM on the Dr. Carlton Goodlett Place side. Then come testify at the 2PM WiFi hearing.
Date: Monday, May 14th
Time: 1:00 PM
Place: City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton Goodlett Place (click here for a map)
RSVP: info@actlocallysf.org or (415) 351-0359 (ask for Aaron if you have questions)
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May 15th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Some of the supervisors are not doing things for the San Franciscan. The WiFi plan that is very good for the people who is living here. The elections for the supervisors has to be changed back to city wide election, this way everyone here has an chance to elect their supervisor.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:36 am
By delaying this vote yet again, Chris Daly is doing San Francisco citizens a huge disservice. Like has already been reported, implementing the Google/Earthlink deal will save me, and many other SF citizens millions of dollars by paying nothing, or only $22 a month for the same service that is now costing me almost $50 through Comcast. I have tried using DSL 2 times before in my apartment, but it always ended up being too unreliable, so for now, I am stuck with Comcast. I can not understand how anyone could possibly think that it would be better to have the city spend millions of our tax dollars to build and maintain a City-Run Wi-Fi system instead of having Google/Earthlink pay the city 2 million dollars for the privilege of offering us all free or inexpensive city-wide Wi-Fi service. If you had to call someone with a customer service problem or question, who do you really think would do a better job with helping you… a Earthlink service representative, or a city-run automated call center where it would be almost impossible to talk to a real person? Any city-run Wi-Fi system would just be another expensive bureaucratic nightmare like Muni. Just like Mayor Newsom, I am “perplexed” why Chris Daly would keep postponing this Wi-Fi vote. Could it just be because Mr. Daly automatically opposes and stonewalls any great ideas proposed by The Mayor, or could it be because Mr. Daly is receiving payola from companies like Comcast and T-Mobile to purposely keep delaying the implementation of city-wide Wi-Fi so that those companies can keep taking money from SF citizens like me for as long as possible?