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Is muni Wi-Fi coming back to Concord, California?

More than a year after MetroFi shut down the municipal Wi-Fi network in Concord (CA), the city is thinking of bringing it back but with a twist: the network will be used only for public safety and other municipal applications. Funds for the network will likely come from the federal government. This time, however, the availability of inexpensive 802.11n access points will make a citywide Wi-Fi deployment less costly and show better latency, higher speeds, improved interference management.

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