City councils from several countries have started to create wireless networks both with mesh wi-fi and with wimax. Two of the most famous cases are Philadelphia’s, were the project is already working, and San Francisco, were it is still a tender project.They aim at having at their disposal a network for the police and emergencies services and also to offer high speed Internet connection to the community. This way they manage to put an end to the bipartite monopoly that affects the whole telecommunications system in the USA, where there are always a cable and a ADSL operators competing against each other leaving the rest of companies –that could rent the services to put forward their own offers- aside.As far as Europe is concerned, the phenomenon is starting to spread around France. Not only does Pau have its own municipal fibre optics network, but the socialist mayor of Paris intends on tendering a project to create a public wi-fi system. In Spain, the CMT is limiting the supply of these type of services from the civil service in order to warrant free competition.Nonetheless, some councils, like Donostia’s, have establish several pay-to-use wi-fi zones in public areas. In Benidorm it has also created its own wireless network, even though it’s only used to give CCTV vigilance services.Another interesting project is being carried out in the Scottish town of Dundee, where the council together with StarSight, a company from Singapore, is installing wi-fi aerials in newly designed street lamps with solar panels.