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Google Startup Aims to Bring Fast, Free Wi-Fi to Cities

It's buying two of the companies that are blanketing New York City with superfast Internet
An attendee at Google's annual developers conference in San Francisco last month.

An attendee at Google's annual developers conference in San Francisco last month.

Photographer: Michael Short/Bloomberg
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Sidewalk Labs, the Google-backed urban innovation startup unveiled this month, has picked its first project—bringing free, fast Wi-Fi to cities around the world.

Today it announced it is leading a group of investors acquiring Control Group and Titan, among the companies working on the LinkNYC network to blanket New York City with free, superfast Wi-Fi. The two have merged to form Intersection, which will oversee the rollout of LinkNYC this fall and then seek to install similar technology in other cities.