Meraki has been working to cover the city of San Francisco with Wi-Fi repeaters that will ultimately provide free citywide Internet service in a project dubbed Free The Net. There isn’t a whole lot of news published about the service due in large part to the fact that the company doesn’t pay for advertising and instead relies primarily on word-of-mouth to spread the service. Despite this, the service is spreading. Over half of the city is now covered and over 100,000 people are using the service (see real-time usage map). With investments from Google, Meraki has been able to make some innovative moves including using solar-powered repeaters and looking at ways to start implementing WiMax into their networks in the near future. Although the company is best-known for its efforts to blanket San Francisco with Wi-Fi, they work internationally and have launched networks in place as different as Cape Horn and Iceland.