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The San Francisco program, which Clear Channel developed with Coca-Cola and Yahoo! involves twenty interactive digital transit shelters that work like giant tablet computers with 72-inch touch screens. The shelters, which are active through January with the Yahoo! program also offer free WiFi in a 3-block radius according to Gordy Ford, VP of digital development at Clear Channel.

I had a hard time believing this until I saw the Indiegogo campaign. Thinking about it however makes perfect sense.

If you want something done, sometimes you just have to do it yourself. The city and county of San Francisco teamed up with Earthlink and Google nearly a decade ago to build what was planned as a citywide Wi-Fi network, only to see Earthlink retreat from its municipal Wi-Fi business in 2007.