San Francisco residents may have to wait at least another year for free citywide wireless Internet access, if an appeal by a group calling for more review is successful. On Wednesday, the San Francisco Neighborhood Antenna Free Union filed an appeal with the Board of Supervisors of the Planning Department’s April 20 decision to exempt from environmental review the installation of an estimated 2,200 wireless, or Wi-Fi, transmitters in various locations throughout The City. Mayor Gavin Newsom has struck an agreement with Google and EarthLink to blanket San Francisco within a free Wi-Fi network.

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