When is free not a good deal? When it locks you into last year's technology. That's the argument some San Francisco activists are taking in protest of the City by the Bay's plan to offer free Wi-Fi access.

Last year Google and Earthlink won a joint bid to provide free Wi-Fi access to San Francisco but some want to put the clamps on the deal and start over.

"We're proposing both faster Wi-Fi and fiber access be part of the immediate plan," Eric Brooks, campaign coordinator for activist group Our City told internetnews.com. "We want to see the city install as much fiber as possible as well as Wi-Fi. But something faster than the 300 Kbps that's in the plan now or the 'cheap' 1 megabit paid option."

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