Downtown Akron launches free wireless Internet access - cleveland.com

Free public wireless Internet access made its debut in downtown Akron on this morning. The first phase of what will be a 10-square-mile wireless mesh network announced last year went live at 11 a.m. So far, it covers about one square mile along a stretch of South Main Street.

The $2.2 million project, called Connect Akron, is a collaboration between the city of Akron and OneCommunity, a Cleveland-based nonprofit organization that has worked since 2003 to build a high-speed fiber optic network between public and nonprofit institutions in Northeast Ohio...