Nonprofit may run Boston Wi-Fi network

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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 PhotoJosh Reynolds)
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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