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Wi-Fi Service Ending in Ten NYC Parks

January 7, 2009 at 11:40 am

NewYorkology's Amy Langfield alerted us by e-mail that WiFi Salon, the wi-fi provider, quietly shutdown in October due to lack of financing and is currently removing equipment from the ten parks where it provides wi-fi, including Central Park.  Bryant Park's service is unaffected.  WiFi Salon won the contract in 2004 and it expired September 30, 2008. 

Founder Marshall Brown told Crain's that the company was unable to locate a sponsor to continue providing the service given the city's budgetary problems and the current economic climate.

Crain's New York Business

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  • Mike Caprio

    Maybe Google should step up to the plate and start giving back to NYC and provide a little free WiFi service?
    Wireless is vital to economic prosperity. No one would dare to suggest that we should shut down phone service when the economy is down; how would people get business done without that service? It makes as much sense as removing the heart from a patient on the table when they’re having a seizure…

  • http://nycwireless.net Rob at NYCwireless

    Don’t forget us at NYCwireless! We’re in Battery Park, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Mad Square Park, etc. We’re alive and well and growing.
    http://nycwireless.net