Geeko Paradiso

Barry Parr's Coastsider reports:

"A vendor has been selected to set up a free wireless Internet service, using wifi, that is supposed to cover San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties and to stretch “west to Half Moon Bay” according to some reports.

The vendor, a partnership of Cisco Systems, IBM, SeaKay and Azulstar—still has to come to agreements with local governments."

The San Mateo County Times adds:

"At no cost to the cities involved, Metro Connect intends to make its money back through advertisements and through charging user fees for faster connections. The service will be free at one megabyte per second downstream and 50 to 60KB upstream, and is primarily intended to be used outdoors."

Awesome news, if it gets approval. (Although with the slow upload rates, it's going to take Scoble a long time to upload his movies.)