Sacramento City Council cancels contract for free Wi-Fi network project

On Tuesday, the Sacramento City Council voted to terminate a contract with a technology group that planned to blanket the city with a free wireless network. That tech consortium -- Sacramento Metro Connect -- was never able to come up with the money to set up the network, according to a city staff report. City officials said no public money was lost, and that only staff time was spent working on the failed deal, which was originally signed in June 2007.