First step towards Cape Code-wide coverage?: Orleans, Mass., receives a grant to install wireless coverage across the community in a boost to business, travelers, and residents. It's not a public-private partnership: it's more about private enterprise banding together to bring in more private enterprise. The idea is to create a model and a catalyst for wireless access across the entire cape.
Ah, but it is a publicly funded network. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is paying the bill for the project to the tune of 146,000 samoleans, via the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, a state agency.
So I would say it's more about private enterprise snagging some free money to build a network that can be experimented with. Nice work if you can get it, as the song goes...