Mt. Clemens gets Wi-Fi service up and running for downtown

Pedestrians looking to pop a lap top and surf the Internet in Mt Clemens can do so easily now that free Wi-Fi, cordless Internet, has been established in the city’s downtown.

“It’s exciting to have it finally up and running,” says Arthur Mullen, executive director of the Mt. Clemens Downtown Development Authority.

The pilot program is providing the service to the core of the downtown, along Macomb Place, Walnut, Main and Pine streets. The coverage area also includes the Roskopp parking lot, the main parking lot behind the Emerald Theater.

Making downtown Mt. Clemens Wi-Fi friendly is the first stage of a larger plan to make all of Macomb County Wi-Fi friendly by late 2008. Southfield-based Michigan Internet Communication Association hopes to have the project up and running later this year. By offering lower Wi-Fi Internet speeds for free, it hopes to get paid subscriptions for faster speeds.

Michigan Internet Communication Association is fitting the $50,000 bill to make downtown Mt. Clemens Wi-Fi friendly.

Source: Arthur Mullen, executive director of the Mt. Clemens Downtown Development Authority
Writer: Jon Zemke