Meraki seals $2 million for free wifi

Meraki announced Tuesday that they have sealed the deal on USD $2 million to help the FreeTheNet cause in San Francisco. Watch this with interest folks, it has been attempted before and failed. If they succeed the story will live on as the pioneer of free wifi in metropolitan areas.

This is only a good thing, and more. If this model can actually take off, hand held devices such as mobile phones with dual mode gsm/wifi, will be given a massive boost, and the community as a whole will be helped up the technological ladder. Not to mention that nerds everywhere in free wifi land will rejoice.

It turns out that some think they can even be solar powered although this seems to be a way off yet.

More on that story over at TechCrunch