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Star Tribune Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:59:12 GMT
Solar Wi-Fi service won't see light of day

St. Louis Park wants to discard all of the powered-by-the-sun wireless Internet equipment that has been installed in the past year. St. Louis Park is abandoning $1 million worth of radios, poles and solar panels erected to create the nation's first citywide wireless Internet service powered by the sun. It's another step in the city's falling out with the project's Maryland contractor Arinc -- a breakup that council and staff members said has "sickened" them. "We're going to tell Arinc, 'Come get your poles, take them out of the ground, stick them someplace where the solar panels won't work at all,'" Mayor Jeff Jacobs said.

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