Silicon Valley throwing in towel on pan-WiFi project?

Silicon Valley throwing in towel on pan-WiFi project?

Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, the project that once proposed an ambitious region-wide WiFi network, now says it may not happen.

“Now, I just don’t know,” says Russell Hancock, chief executive of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, to Dow Jones.

The project, launched almost two years ago, had always been somewhat hyped. At meeting after meeting, its leaders declared progress in planning, but they never clarified how exactly it would work, and who was going to pay… Continue Reading