A community Wi-Fi movement is taking place in the urban neighborhoods of San Francisco. Today more than 6,500 San Francisco residents and business owners concentrated in the Mission, Haight, and Alamo Square neighborhoods are tapping into a growing free Wi-Fi network with the help of Meraki. Compared to a top-down municipal Wi-Fi approach, Meraki takes a truly unique and innovative bottoms-up approach by empowering individuals to connect and build a Wi-Fi community.

The new San Francisco Wi-Fi community was started a little more than five months ago by Meraki as an initiative called Free the Net. Due to the successful expansion of this Wi-Fi community and significant interest coming from many other San Franciscans asking to join, Meraki today announced plans to expand its support to neighborhoods across San Francisco.

“Our goal is to bring wireless Internet access to the next billion people around the world,” said Sanjit Biswas, CEO and co-founder for Meraki, “And in San Francisco, we have proven that a community can take it in their own hands to build and scale the wireless Internet, and enable free access across neighborhoods.”

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