Nonprofit may run Boston Wi-Fi network

August 1, 2006 Nonprofit may run Boston Wi-Fi network (AP)

Pedestrians walk across City Hall plaza in front of Faneuil Hall in Boston, Monday, July 31, 2006, which the city plans to make the first hotspot in a city-wide wireless Internet access network. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

(AP) -- The city is considering an unusual approach to creating a citywide, low-cost wireless Internet network: putting a nonprofit organization, rather than a private service provider, in charge of building and running the system.

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