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Houston City Council is considering the WiFi proposal.

The City Council on Wednesday is expected to consider a $2.5 million contract with EarthLink Inc. that would allow the company to build the city's wireless network and agree to be its "anchor tenant" for the first five years of the project.

While the agreement allows Mayor Bill White to keep his promise of not using taxpayer money to build the network, the city would be required to pay the company at least $500,000 annually for five years to use the service.

Anyone want to bet if a certain councilwoman's minority subcontractor clients friends get sweetheart deals from Earthlink to do the actual installs?

And this is going to go active right around the time that the po' people are going to have to wrestle with the analog-digital television conversion mandate... are we going to see a similar handout to the po' in terms of "wireless receiver module vouchers" as well?