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Are there similar efforts to follow in other cities? e.g Boston, SF

Comcast & AT&T cast SF's into oblivion: https://www.fastcompany.com/90319916/the-anti-competitive-fo...

If I understand it correctly, the two ways that incumbents are able to kill these efforts are through lower costs and through infrastructure restrictions. Emitting radio waves is both cheaper and lower-infrastructure than laying fiber. The question in my mind is whether the quality holds up.

You forgot pay the opposition party to demagogue. Lobbying has a higher ROI and they can keep treating internet service as a luxury good instead of a commodity.

I led this project - it died with the late Mayor Ed Lee. An interim Mayor doesn’t have the political capital to lead something of this scale.

Sudomesh - Oakland - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh

Althea - Portland - https://althea.net

Freifunk - Germany - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freifunk

Open Wireless - Global - https://openwireless.org

Sudomesh https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh in Oakland

Philadelphia: https://phillymesh.net/

Yeah, see https://massmesh.org for Boston.

Is the Boston one seeing any progress (admittedly its current incarnation is rather recent)? I am moving there soon and would love to join a mesh network, but from my (superficial) reading of their materials, they do not have yet any nodes you can connect to (as a person not owning roof access for a "super node").

I believe Athens[0] was the first, or perhaps just a successful early effort. I remember being quite inspired when I read about it.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Wireless_Metropolitan...

There was Consume in the UK (predominantly London) from 2000. http://dek.spc.org/julian/consume/

common networks: https://common.net/

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