Naperville covets Aurora's network: A next-door city has a city-wide Wi-Fi network courtesy of MetroFi, which offers a free ad-supported version and an ad-free fee-based subscription. It could be quite simple for MetroFi to extend over the border.
Six Foothill Transit buses will have Wi-Fi: The Line699 buses run from Montclair to downtown LA. Six buses will have free Internet service, distributed via Wi-Fi, for 60 days while the transportation agency evaluates the idea. Downstream speeds will hit about 600 Kbps, official predict, which means they're almost certainly using an EVDO backhaul connection via Sprint or Verizon. Sprint's more likely because their usage policy is more liberal. The bus line carries 15m passengers a year among 21 cities.
Pleasanton might expand downtown Wi-Fi to other parts of town: Leaders are considering next steps for the network, which will be live later in the year; the network was originally conceived of as a public-safety tool.