It wasn't easy, but a broad swath of Cambridge, Massachusetts will now have free Wi-Fi Internet. The effort required a partnership between several institutions and organizations to come to fruition.
"Through a unique collaboration among MIT, Google, Boston Properties, the City of Cambridge, and the Cambridge Housing Authority (CHA), an open and free-of-charge Wi-Fi network is now available in the Kendall Square area and the Newtowne Court and Washington Elms public housing neighborhoods," according to an article by the MIT News Service.
The project is three years in the making, with the "intricate work" of "building out fiber networks to provide connectivity to outdoor wireless access points" as a significant challenge to the finished project.
FULL STORY: New Kendall Wi-Fi supports Kendall Square and nearby residential areas
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