It's official: Citywide Wi-Fi in the United States just got boring.

Well, mainstream then.

Late last month, Earthlink teamed up with Google in a plan to blanket San Francisco with Wi-Fi. Then came word--from internal documents, since confirmed, from cable trade group CableLabs--that the cable industry is planning its own wide-area wireless network. Dubbed CableRoam, the scheme will feature citywide Wi-Fi among other technologies.

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