Standard-Examiner: Free Wi-Fi In Downtown Ogden, Will It Work This Time?

Nice work, Mayor Mike!

In our request for proposals, we stated that we wanted to partner with a company that could provide wireless service to downtown, free to citizens, and with no cost to the city,”

Ogden City IT Operations Manager Andy Lefgren
Free Wi-Fi in downtown Ogden, will it work this time?
September 11, 2014

If people know that can get free Internet service downtown, they’re going to come. It’s all part of making the downtown area more vibrant.

Ogden City IT Operations Manager Andy Lefgren
Free Wi-Fi in downtown Ogden, will it work this time?
September 11, 2014

Pretty clever concept, wethink. Here Mitch Shaw's tantalizing lede:

OGDEN — Turns out FlowRider isn’t the only place where you can surf in downtown Ogden.

For those looking for less “wet” and more “net,” Ogden City is now providing free WiFi Internet access downtown, allowing anyone in the area to surf the Internet to their heart’s content. The city announced earlier this week that it has partnered with WebNX, an Internet infrastructure provider with new facilities in Ogden, to offer the free wireless internet access.

Ogden City IT Operations Manager Andy Lefgren said the service has no use limitations and will provide a dedicated 10 gigabit per second bandwidth feed. Currently, the wireless network is available from 21st Street to 22nd Street between Washington Boulevard and Grant Avenue. Lefrgren said the municipal network provides speeds up to four times faster than the average home user is able to purchase.

Lefgren said eventually the entire downtown area will be a wireless access zone. The overall implementation strategy will happen in four separate phases and is expected to be fully complete by December 2016.

Read the full story here, folks:

• Free Wi-Fi in downtown Ogden, will it work this time?

Nice work, Mayor Mike!