I just saw a news report that the Portland City Council has approved city wide WiFi. I don't think I'll be in danger of having to remove our WiFi borg icon , but it will be nice when I am at a place where the wireless connection is on the fritz, or the cocktail servers don't know the WEP key, or it turns out they are just idiots and haven't had WiFi in years.

The Portland City Council Wednesday voted to blanket all 134 square miles of Portland in a wireless web.

It will be free for anyone to access and will cost taxpayers nothing. Just a few "pockets" of the city won't get service, according to officials, but that will account for only about 5% of the entire coverage area.

The city council awarded Metro-Fi, a Silicon Valley-based company,the exclusive contract to develop Portland's Wi-Fi network.

Initially, the wireless coverage will include downtown and the inner eastside of the city but full city coverage should come within one to two years, officials said.

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