Just two years after Scottdale, Arizona launched its wireless downtown project, the city seems to be out of a connection. It appears that Wildfire Broadband, the company operating the project, has gone out of business. The city itself did not get word that Wildfire was discontinuing service but their technicians confirm that the service is down; the Wildfire website also appears to be down. There is no word as of yet how Scottsdale is likely to proceed. Although the service has been used in the two years that it s been up, there is also competition from free hot spot areas that may make it unnecessary to attempt to revitalize the downtown network.
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