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07/14/2005: "Free metro wireless (in Spokane)"

Wind Wireless Inc. and Cutting Edge Communications Inc., both of Spokane, have teamed up to launch free wireless Internet service in the downtown area.

Wind’s chief technical officer, Bob Kirkpatrick, says the high-speed, wireless-fidelity, or Wi-Fi, service is available throughout Riverfront Park, and along downtown sections of Spokane Falls Boulevard, Main Street, Riverside Avenue, and part of First Avenue. He says it will be expanded to include the area along Sprague Avenue to Spokane Valley and the area along Division Street to just past NorthTown Mall by the end of the summer.

“The idea is to create a utility for wireless customers in commercial areas that’s absolutely free and doesn’t have limited connection speeds,” Kirkpatrick says.

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What with OneEighty about to go dark, maybe Spokane will get to join the real world.