Scottsdale downtown drive: The city wants Wi-Fi across downtown and is considering a four-year contract with a provider. This is unusual: trials usually proceed contracts which often are much shorter in duration. Interesting point in the article: the contractor will pay the city to use facilities like poles. The service won't be free.
Wilkes-Barre wants Wi-Fi now! Later won't work because of the sunset provision of the Pennsylvania law that disallows new municipal telecom and data networks that aren't in place by the end of the year without a specific waiver granted by the incumbent. Yeah, that's the way democracy works: cities have to crave permission from private corporations which receive public subsidies. The proposed service would cross seven square miles and they'd try to charge about $20 per month with a private contractor handling the installation and operations.
Sans Fils, Sans Fee: My bad bilingual pun of the day would be to propose that free networks should be called "sans fee" (pronounced sanz fee) to make a double entrendre on the French phrase for wireless, "sans fils," which pronounced "sonnz fee."